capote

What it means

1. A long coat or cloak with a hood.

   […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock, The little shepherd in his white capote Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,

   1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86

   1 more example

   It was said that the Rabbi of Kotsk had been in Favor of European dress, but the Rabbi of Gur and his followers had insisted on the Russian capote, trousers tucked into the boots, a kerchief around the neck, and the Russian cap adapted to the native style.

   1967, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb, The Manor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359

2. historicalA coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.

   The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood,who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.

   1888 October, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

3. historicalA close-fitting woman's bonnet.

   Tied round her head with a large bow and flying blue ribbons under the chin, was a fragile flat Capote like a baby’s bonnet, which allowed her hair to escape in front and her great chignon behind.

   1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308

   1 more example

   A discreet visitor on such occasions advances straight to the window or the glass: Emily did the latter; and five minutes of contemplation ascertained the fact that her capote would endure a slight tendency to the left.

   1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 123

In a sentence

[…] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock, The little shepherd in his white capote Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,

1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86

Where it comes from

1. Frenchcapote
2. Englishcapote

Borrowed from French capote. Doublet of capot and kaput.