blanket capote

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a capote made of blanket cloth, much used as winter wear in the North.

Quotations

1843

I have been getting winter clothing here to take in, blanket capot etc. . . .

1952

They yanked off their mittens to thrust freezing hands under their blanket capotes and under their shirts to their warm armpits.