Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
cape (item of clothing).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Riccardo Vimercati Piombo's designs, which will be available at Barneys, among other American stores, include heavier coats such as this dark-blue capelike creation.
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His capelike layers—four of them, all black, "I'm always wearing black," he said—were very similar to the kind of garb Kanye West has been wearing recently on tour with Jay-Z and that Keanu Reeves sports in the third "Matrix" movie.
Star Turns for Cults Marshall Heyman 2011
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She angrily smoothed down her long, silken, capelike sleeves.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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She pulled a capelike tweed coat from a hanger, grabbed up her purse, and last of all, picked up a long blue-and-orange scarf.
Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009
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It was a long sheath of a dress with a slip top, which was covered by a capelike overtop.
Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005
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It was a long sheath of a dress with a slip top, which was covered by a capelike overtop.
Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005
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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was there also, looking great in her Scaasi—a bright red satin low-cut slinky long dress with a loose panel that fell capelike to the floor from two big bows at the neckline in the back.
Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004
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Well-to-do men occasionally tossed a capelike mantle over their shoulders, fastened with a gold pin or brooch, proudly displaying their wealth.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Well-to-do men occasionally tossed a capelike mantle over their shoulders, fastened with a gold pin or brooch, proudly displaying their wealth.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Well-to-do men occasionally tossed a capelike mantle over their shoulders, fastened with a gold pin or brooch, proudly displaying their wealth.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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