capulet

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She was suffering slightly from humour in the head, and her mother had expressly bidden her to wrap herself in her capulet_,* a large white capulet which contrasted vividly with her old black woollen dress.

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  1. A hood worn by the peasant women of the French slope of the Pyrenees. It is made of fine white or red cloth, sometimes bordered with black velvet.
  2. Same as capellet.

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