capote

See also: Capote and capoté

English

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capote (garment)

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French capote. Doublet of capot and kaput.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpəʊt/

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• 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:

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

   • 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:

     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 October, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine:

     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], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, 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.

Synonyms

• (coat): cappo

Derived terms

• capoted

Anagrams

• PECOTA, Tecopa, acepot, toe cap, toecap

French

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), with the diminutive French suffix -ote. Piecewise doublet of capot. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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

     The Pope asks (them) to choose between the Eucharist and the condom / Oh Shit ! Less faithfuls and more sex shops

Derived terms

• capoter
• décapoter

Descendants

• → English: capote
• → Persian: کاپوت (kâput)
• → Polish: kapota
• → Portuguese: capote
• → Russian: капо́т (kapót), капо́тъ (kapót) — pre-1918 spelling
  • → Armenian: կապոտ (kapot)
  • → Georgian: კაპოტი (ḳaṗoṭi)
  • → Ukrainian: капо́т (kapót)
  • → Uzbek: kapot
• → 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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French capote.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

capote f (invariable)

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

Anagrams

• Capeto

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

capote f (plural capotes)

1. condom