cape
noun/keɪp/
/keɪp/
- a loose outer piece of clothing that has no sleeves (= parts covering the arms), fastens at the neck and hangs from the shoulders, like a cloak but shorter
- a bullfighter’s cape
- He strode out of the room, his black cape flowing behind him.
- Superman's cape
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- (abbreviation C.)(often in place names) a piece of high land that sticks out into the sea
- Cape Horn
Word Originsense 1 mid 16th cent.: from French, from Provençal capa, from late Latin cappa ‘covering for the head’.sense 2 late Middle English: from Old French cap, from Provençal, based on Latin caput ‘head’.
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