Caporegime
the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
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- Capot
the taking by one player of all the tricks of a deal, as in piquet. capote. Historical Examples La Ronge Journal, 1823 George Nelson Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various The Sharper Detected and Exposed Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin noun (piquet) the winning of all the tricks by one player
- Capote
a long cloak with a hood. a close-fitting, caplike bonnet worn by women and children in the mid-Victorian period. a bullfighter’s cape; capa. an adjustable top or hood of a vehicle, as a buggy. Truman, 1924–84, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Contemporary Examples How Gossip Became History: Eminent Outlaws by Christopher Bram Brad Gooch […]
- Cappa-magna
a ceremonial cloak having a long train and a silk or fur-lined hood, worn by cardinals, bishops, and certain other dignitaries.
- Cappadocia
an ancient country in E Asia Minor: it became a Roman province in a.d. Historical Examples Cyropaedia Xenophon The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various Dio’s Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) Cassius Dio The Life of Cicero Anthony Trollope The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3) Strabo The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of […]