capotes

To give his speech Trotzky, accompanied by his faithful "capotes," was obliged to repair to another hall.

Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

The clothing of the hunters themselves, is generally made of prepared skins, though most of them wear blanket "capotes," (overcoats,) and calico shirts.

Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

The clouds meantime became thicker and thicker, and the mist, which had at first been thin vapor, began now to descend in the form of a small thick rain, which gathered like dew upon the capotes of the travellers.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

On the boat there were plenty of warm clothes: great capotes, oilskin jackets, waterproof boots, all acquired by Lord Berrybender and his agents in Saint Louis.

The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

She shrugged on one of the great gray capotes and followed Vicky Kennet to the lower deck, where a pirogue with two freezing engagés in it waited to ferry the hunting party to shore.

The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

About midnight we fell asleep upon the ground, wrapped in our capotes, and dreamed of ladies and tombs and prophets till the neighing of our horses announced the dawn.

Eothen 2003

My quilt and my pelisse were spread, and the rest of my party had all their capotes or pelisses, or robes of some sort, which furnished their couches.

Eothen 2003

As the grounds for alarm arose, the crew gathered together in one close group; they stood pale and grim under their hooded capotes like monks awaiting a massacre, anxiously looking by turns along the pathway of the storm and then upon each other, and then upon the eye of the captain who stood by the helmsman.

Eothen 2003

She gestured toward the window, and I saw that it was filled with articles of worn clothing of every kind, jelabs, capotes, smocks, cymars, and so on.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

The wild-looking mariners were lounging lazily about in their shaggy capotes, or engaged in loading their vessels with grain, the product of the neighboring plains.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various