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29 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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capote
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Definition:a long cloak with a hood. They were commonly worn in the French Canadian provinces in the 1600s and made a comeback in the late nineteenth century.
image: By Friedrich von Germann (1744–1794), Captain of the Brunswick Rgt Erbprinz; lost original, copy circa 1852. - NYPL 2018-01-20., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65688794
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Cannon and musketry, mingling together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes of Lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 02 (Book Two)
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But beshrew me, he cried, clapping hand to his forehead, tomorrow will be a new day and, thousand thunders, I know of a marchand de capotes, Monsieur Poyntz, from whom I can have for a livre as snug a cloak of the French fashion as ever kept a lady from wetting.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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