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Webster 1913 Edition
Capote
Ca-pote′
,Noun.
A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.
Definition 2024
capote
capote
See also: capoté
English
Noun
capote (plural capotes)
- A long coat or cloak with a hood.
- 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.
- 1888, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, October 1888.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), with the diminutive French suffix -ote.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.pɔt/
Noun
capote f (plural capotes)
- greatcoat
- (of a car) soft top
- (slang) shorter form of capote anglaise
Verb
capote
- first-person singular present indicative of capoter
- third-person singular present indicative of capoter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of capoter
- third-person singular present subjunctive of capoter
- second-person singular imperative of capoter
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Anagrams
Portuguese
Noun
capote m (plural capotes)
- (slang) condom
Verb
capote
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of capotar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of capotar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of capotar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of capotar