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capote

/kəˈpəʊt/

capote noun: a long coat or cloak with a hood.

capote: a long coat or cloak with a hood
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Noun

capote (plural capotes)

  1. A long coat or cloak with a hood.
    • […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,
      The little shepherd in his white capote
      Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86
    • It was said that the Rabbi of Kotsk had been in Favor of European dress, but the Rabbi of Gur and his followers had insisted on the Russian capote, trousers tucked into the boots, a kerchief around the neck, and the Russian cap adapted to the native style.1967, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb, The Manor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359
  2. (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
    • The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood,who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.1888 October, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
  3. (historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
    • A discreet visitor on such occasions advances straight to the window or the glass: Emily did the latter; and five minutes of contemplation ascertained the fact that her capote would endure a slight tendency to the left.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 123
    • Tied round her head with a large bow and flying blue ribbons under the chin, was a fragile flat Capote like a baby’s bonnet, which allowed her hair to escape in front and her great chignon behind.1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308

Proper noun capitalized: Capote

Capote (plural Capotes)

  1. A surname.

capote meaning in Urdu

capote in Urdu

چوغہ, لبادہ

Synonyms of capote

Forms of capote

Noun
pluralcapotes
Proper noun
pluralCapotes

Origin of capote

Borrowed from French capote. Doublet of capot and kaput.

Words formed from capote

Words that rhyme with capote

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Questions about capote

What does capote mean?
Capote means a long coat or cloak with a hood.
What is capote in Urdu?
Capote in Urdu is چوغہ, لبادہ. See Capote meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is capote?
Capote can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce capote?
Capote is pronounced /kəˈpəʊt/.
What is the plural of capote?
The plural of capote is capotes.

Words near capote in the dictionary

  1. capot
  2. capotain
  3. capotains
  4. capotasto
  5. capotastos
  6. capote
  7. capoted
  8. capotes
  9. capoting
  10. capots
  11. capotted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capote (page history and authors); Capote (page history and authors); capote (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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