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cape1 /keɪp /noun1A sleeveless cloak, typically a short one: he was wearing a flowing cape...- He wears a grey t-shirt underneath a plaid flannel shirt and short grey cape, jeans, runners, and a plain black mask.
- His short cape blew along with the night wind, dancing to its melody as it sang through the desert.
- Nutty knitwear - woollen boots, sparkly, spartan leg warmers, bizarre capes and frocks combined to create a blindingly colourful but incomprehensible collection.
Synonyms cloak, mantle, shawl, wrap, stole, tippet; in South America poncho, serape; Ecclesiastical cope, mozzetta, amice archaic mantlet rare pelisse, pelerine 1.1A part of a longer coat or cloak that falls loosely over the shoulders from the neckband: the robe was decorated with gold lace on the fronts, cape, and hem...- Cover clothing with the shoulder capes or take a cotton sheet and drape it over the clothing for the season to avoid dust and fading.
2North American The pelt from the head and neck of an animal, for preparation as a hunting trophy: the hair on a cape for the taxidermist can spoil in warm weather verb [with object](In bullfighting) taunt (the bull) by flourishing a cape: the film shows a man expertly caping a charging bull Derivatives caped adjective ...- After playing the caped hero in two sequels, he knew there was a danger of becoming typecast.
- Painted to the right was what was left of a faded image of a caped woman with blonde hair, holding a bow.
- The caped figure removed the hood and turned around to face her.
Origin Mid 16th century: from French, from Provençal capa, from late Latin cappa 'covering for the head'. cap from Old English: We get our word cap from Latin cappa ‘hood’, which may be related to Latin caput ‘head’. Cape (late 16th century), ‘a cloak’, also come from cappa, while the geographical cape (Late Middle English) goes back to caput. The same source gives us chaperone (Late Middle English) first recorded as a hood. A person providing protection or cover by accompanying another, dates from the early 18th century. The saying if the cap fits, wear it goes back to a dunce's cap, of the kind that poor performers at school had to wear as a mark of disgrace. Americans use the version if the shoe fits, wear it. See also chapel
Rhymes agape, ape, chape, crape, crêpe, drape, escape, gape, grape, jape, misshape, nape, rape, scrape, shape, tape cape2 /keɪp /noun1A headland or promontory: we could see the island from the cape...- ‘And this,’ he said, with a sweep of his arm that took in the stark capes and headlands, the fleets of islands and the sea around us, ‘this was my school room.’
- For the same reasons sanctuaries were sited at the tip of capes or peninsulas or on an island close to the mainland.
- Without wasting a moment we head for the last cape of the Peninsula de Paria, with the help of a GPS that they inexplicably left behind.
Synonyms headland, promontory, point, head, foreland, neck; bluff, cliff, precipice, prominence, projection, overhang; horn, hook, bill, ness, naze; peninsula; Scottish mull rare chersonese 1.1 (the Cape) The Cape of Good Hope. 1.2 (the Cape) The former Cape Province of South Africa. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French cap, from Provençal, based on Latin caput 'head'. |