capote

See also: Capote and capoté

English

Traditional capote made with a Hudson's Bay point blanket.

Straw capote.

Etymology

Borrowed from French capote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpəʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt

Noun

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,^[1]

     […] 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,^[2]

     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, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 1, 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,^[3]

     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.

Synonyms

• cappo

Derived terms

• capoted

Anagrams

• PECOTA, Tecopa, acepot, toe cap, toecap

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pɔt/

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Noun

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 quotation)

Derived terms

• capoter
• décapoter

Descendants

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

Verb

capote

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

See also

• capot

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• écopât

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Italian

Etymology

capo- +‎

Noun

capote f (invariable)

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

Anagrams

• Capeto

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Norman

Etymology

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Noun

capote f (plural capotes)

1. condom

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɔ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈpɔ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧po‧te

Etymology 1

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Noun

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters
3. (card games) clean sweep
4. (figurative) disguise
5. (Brazil, colloquial) condom

Etymology 2

Verb

capote

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpote/ [kaˈpo.t̪e]

Noun

capote m (plural capotes)

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

Derived terms

• capotazo
• capotillo
• echar un capote

Verb

capote

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

Further reading

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

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Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish capote.

Noun

capote

1. greatcoat

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 29