Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a cape (item of clothing).

Etymologies

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cape +‎ -like

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Examples

  • 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.

    Three Rising Designers 2011

  • 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

  • She angrily smoothed down her long, silken, capelike sleeves.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • 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

  • It was a long sheath of a dress with a slip top, which was covered by a capelike overtop.

    Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005

  • It was a long sheath of a dress with a slip top, which was covered by a capelike overtop.

    Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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