Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the common blackcap warbler of Europe, Sylvia atricapilla.
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Examples
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This garment consists in a tunic, a hood with conical tip ( "capirote") used to conceal the face of the wearer, and sometimes a cloak.
Secret Tenerife 2009
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-- ¡Tú no has caído en que yo sería tonto de capirote [99-2] si me marchase contigo a España a ponerte en posesión de ... medio tesoro, contando con que tú me pondrías a mí en posesión
Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862
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It is the capirote, which no effort has succeeded in taming, so sacred to his soul is liberty.
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It is the capirote, which no effort has succeeded in taming, so sacred to his soul is liberty.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The similarity between the penitents dress - capirote - and the kkk dress is really unpleasant, but it has nothing to do.
chained_bear commented on the word capirote
"What seems surprising is that after many official Spanish explorations and the French Academy's geodesic expedition of the 1730s, little was still known about the interior of the South American continent. Setting sail from La Coruña, Spain, in the summer of 1799. Humboldt and Bonpland would correct this situation. During the next five years they carried the latest scientific equipment through tropics, rain forests, river basins, and up and up and down Andean peaks, covering almost 10,000 miles. Their brief stop in the Canary Islands on the way there had already disclosed Humboldt's penchant for seeing nature in its manifold relationships from the 'heart soothing song' of the capirote to the 'affinities' that might unite volcanoes like the one at Tenerife with Vesuvius and those in the Cordilleras of Peru and Mexico."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 216-217
December 28, 2016