capoteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French capote. Doublet of capot and kaput.

発音

• IPA: /kəˈpəʊt/
• 韻: -əʊt

名詞

capote (plural capotes)

1. A long coat or cloak with a hood.
   • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage‎, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86:

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

   • 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:

     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.

2. (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
   • 1888 October, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine:

     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.

3. (historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 123:

     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.

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

     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.

同意語

• (coat): cappo

派生語

• capoted

アナグラム

• PECOTA, Tecopa, acepot, toe cap, toecap