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A slight convexity on top, and the bright gold-gilt band by which, with regular interlacement, the cope was attached, gave the cap surmounting the head a likeness to a crown In style this armor was common.

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  1. intransitive verb To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success: coping with child rearing and a full-time job.
  2. intransitive verb To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them: "Facing unprecedented problems, the Federal Reserve of the early 1930s couldn't cope” (Robert J. Samuelson).
  3. noun A long ecclesiastical vestment worn over an alb or surplice.
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  • That kind of weather doesn't stop Spanish partiers, but sometimes the best way to cope is to do nothing but lounge outdoors screen-side. —  Cool Hunting
  • One of the ways to cope is to exclude everything that's troubling. —  prairiemary
  • To cope, the contract electronics manufacturer has taken drastic measures to restructure its business. —  Fool.com: The Motley Fool
  • It was possible that people with such psychological disturbances had been drinking coffee to help them cope, they noted in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • So much heavy rain has fallen that many hedgehogs are struggling to cope, their tiny bodies exhausted by constant cold and hunger. —  News round-up
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  1. Middle English copen, coupen, to strike, from Old French couper, from Vulgar Latin *colpāre, from Late Latin colpus, blow; see coup.
  2. Middle English cope, from Old English -cāp, from Medieval Latin cāpa, cloak, from Late Latin cappa.

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  1. Formerly also coape; from Middle English cope, from Anglo-Saxon *cāp or *cāpe (in comp. cantel-cāpas, Middle English cantelcape, canturcope, variant of canterecæppa, a priest's robe, a dalmatic), also (in glosses) cōp (= Icelandic kāpa = Swedish kåpa = Danish kaabe, a cope), variant forms of cappe, cæppe, a cape, all ult. (like Middle English cape, from Old French cape, etc.) from Latin cappa, capa, a cape, cope: see cape and cap, of which cope is a doublet.
  2. from Middle English copen (in def. 2); from the noun.
  3. from Middle English copen, buy, pay for, bargain, from Dutch koopen, buy, = English cheap, v., buy, bargain: see cheap, v., chop, v., and chap, v. Cf. cope.
  4. from late Middle English copen. prob. a variant of coupen (English coup; cf. cope, the same word in a technical sense), strike, fight, apparently later associated with Middle English copen, buy, pay for, bargain; the notion of ‘strive, contend’ easily arising from that of ‘bargain, chaffer.’ See coup, cope.
  5. Origin obscure.
  6. Var. of coup, q. v.
 

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