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cape

A shorter version of the cloak, a cape is an outer garment worn over the shoulders and arms, but without slits for the arms. Capes were popular in the late 19th century and again in the 1950s to the mid-1970s.
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He might have carried him round by the way of the Cape of Good Hope.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The members of the Cape Pleasant Club were easygoing refugees from other and more exacting clubs, men who pottered rather than raced round the links; men, in short, who had grown tired of having to stop their game and stand aside in order to allow perspiring experts to whiz past them.
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