cope
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9.9
- noun
- /koʊp/
- Specialized
:
capa
- During the ceremony, the priest donned a beautiful cope adorned with intricate designs.
She calls us downstairs and tells us to put our copes on because the MOT Fair is on in Tewkesbury.
- She calls us downstairs and tells us to put our copes on because the MOT Fair is on in Tewkesbury.
Examples
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It also recalls a cope, a type of cape worn by bishops during processions.
Academic text (1996) -
These factors do not exist in general coping scales: the Cope questionnaire is the one to evaluate substance consumption as a coping strategy, but does so with only one item.
Academic text (2013) -
Because I'm not I don't have the cope mechanisms to deal with this life that I've now attained.
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I mean, I'm hesitant to use the word interpretation this now because you you seem to think that these are better described as as copes, all these other theories.
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She calls us downstairs and tells us to put our copes on because the MOT Fair is on in Tewkesbury.
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At its center, a juggler wears a miter-like headdress and a cape similar to a bishop's cope.
Academic text (1996) -
Other capes have rounded collars possibly derived from the collars and hoods of Catholic copes.
Academic text (1996) -
Nor was costume neglected: Courson's document dictated that, when lecturing, masters were to wear "a simple black round ankle-length cope, a pallium, and plain shoes with pointed toes."
Academic text (1999) -
As Francesco stares, uncertain whether to speak, genuflect, or back cautiously away, the folds of the cope rustle, and a small, pale hand appears, the index finger extended, pointing at him.
Fiction book (2000) -
The rigid collar of his cope is so high that it obscures the lower part of his face, so he appears to be a small mound of gold, brocade, and jewels from which peer steadily two heavy-lidded, skeptical eyes above a long aquiline nose.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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8.5
A special robe that a priest or minister wears for religious services
Church leaders wear a long loose piece of clothing for church services
Clothing worn by priests or other church people for services
How Ornate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cope for a long religious cloak comes from the Latin word cappa, which meant 'hood' or 'cape' and later passed into French as cape. It is like a large cape that covers the shoulders, so a cope is a ceremonial covering.