capotes

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
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

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