capote

Borrowed from French capote.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpəʊt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

capote (plural capotes)

1. A long coat or cloak with a hood.
   • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86,

     […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,
     The little shepherd in his white capote
     Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,

   • 1967, Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb (translators), The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359,

     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.

2. (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
   • 1888, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, October 1888.

     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.

3. (historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 123:

     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.

   • 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308,

     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.

• (coat): cappo

• capoted

• PECOTA, Tecopa, acepot, toe cap, toecap

Ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), with the diminutive French suffix -ote.

• IPA^(key): /ka.pɔt/

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capote f (plural capotes)

1. greatcoat
2. (of a car) soft top
3. (slang) Ellipsis of capote anglaise (“condom”).
   • 1994, “Zig Zag de l'aisé”, in Obsolète, performed by MC Solaar:

     Le pape demande de choisir hostie ou capote / Oh Shit ! Moins de fidèles et plus de sex shops

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• capoter
• décapoter

• → English: capote
• → Portuguese: capote
• → Turkish: kaput

capote

1. inflection of capoter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• capot

• “capote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• écopât

Unadapted borrowing from French capote.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Hyphenation: ca‧pote

capote f (invariable)

1. bonnet (British), hood (US) (of a car)
2. soft top

• Capeto

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

capote f (plural capotes)

1. condom

• Hyphenation: ca‧po‧te

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters
   • Fernando Tordo (lyrics and music) (1973), “Tourada” (in Portuguese): “Entram guizos, chocas e capotes / E mantilhas pretas [Enter rattles, cowbells, and cloaks / And black mantillas]”
3. (card games) clean sweep
4. (figurative) disguise
5. (Brazil, colloquial) condom

capote

1. inflection of capotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpote/ [kaˈpo.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: ca‧po‧te

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters

• capotazo
• capotillo
• echar un capote

capote

1. inflection of capotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “capote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish capote.

capote

1. greatcoat

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 29