Capote

UK: 'Capote': /kəˈpəʊtɪ/; 'capote': /kəˈpəʊt/, /kapɔt/

US: 'Capote': (kə pō′tē); 'capote': (kə pōt′; Fr. ka pôt′)

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Capote / kəˈpəʊtɪ/ noun

1. Truman. 1924–84, US writer; his novels include Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and In Cold Blood (1964), based on an actual multiple murder

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ca•pote  (kə pōt′; Fr. ka pôt′), n., pl. -potes  (-pōts′; Fr. -pôt′). 

1. Clothing a long cloak with a hood.
2. Clothing a close-fitting, caplike bonnet worn by women and children in the mid-Victorian period.
3. Sport a bullfighter's cape;
   capa.
4. Clothing an adjustable top or hood of a vehicle, as a buggy.

Also, capot. 

• Spanish capa cape¹) + -ote, feminine of -ot diminutive suffix
• French, equivalent. to cape (
• 1790–1800, American.

Ca•po•te  (kə pō′tē), n. 

1. Biographical Truman, 1924–84, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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capote / kəˈpəʊt kapɔt/ noun

1. a long cloak or soldier's coat, usually with a hood

Etymology: 19th Century: from French: cloak, from cape; see cape¹