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/keɪp/, U.S. /keɪp/ Obsolete.
A cloak with a hood; a cloak or mantle generally; an ecclesiastical cope.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape
rifteOE
mantleeOE
whittlec900
hackleeOE
bratc950
reafOE
capec1275
copec1275
cloakc1300
toge?a1400
caster1567
togeman1567
vinegar1699
overcloak1831
pharos1871
society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > cope
cantel-capea1121
copec1290
cantor-cope1348
cape?1510
pluvial1621
cappa1859
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6537 He nom ane cape [c1300 Otho cloke] of his ane cnihte.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3880 A cniht mid his capen [c1300 Otho cope].
c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 3523 Thou sal be ful fayne For to hald my kapes sleue Whils I washe.
1423 Kingis Quair iii. viii There saw I stand, in capis wyde and lang, A full grete nowmer, but thair hudis all.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 721 Hec capa, a cape.
?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aiv So many capes as nowe be, and so fewe good preestes.
1561 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 156 Nyne peces of caippis, chasubles, and tunicles.
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capen.2
/keɪp/, U.S. /keɪp/ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > types of > hooded
huke1415
haikc1440
cape1565
bardocucullus1611
fool's hood1647
talisman1678
surtouta1685
burnous1695
Capuchin1749
capot1775
capa1787
sulham1791
capote1812
trot-cosy1814
faldetta1834
jelab1849
pixie cape1964
1565–78 T. Cooper Thesaurus Chlamys, a cloke: a Spanish cape.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 60 A spanish Cape, a cloke with an hoode.
2. The tippet of a cloak or similar garment, being an additional outer piece attached to it at the neck and hanging loose over the shoulders (e.g. in old riding-cloaks, infants' pelisses, etc.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > shoulder > tippet
cape1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 199 Leaues..resembling the cape of a cloke.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 137 I said a gowne..With a small compast cape.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxxxiv. 70 The far mountains..clap a white cape on their mantles blue.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 39 Having the cape of [his riding cloak] drawn up.
3.
a. A separate article of attire, being a kind of short loose sleeveless cloak, fitting round the neck and falling over the shoulders as a protection against rain or cold. Waterproof capes of this kind are in common use.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > types of > small or short
mantletc1385
semicopec1405
capiteberne1473
scapulary mantle1548
rokelay1709
cloaket1717
cardinal1745
chlamys1750
cape1759
manteline1807
short-cloak1837
mantilla1848
cloaklet1865
dolmanette1883
capelet1912
1611 in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 92 Or any other garments, safe only a cape of veluet.]
1759 S. Johnson Idler 24 Mar. 89 He..buttoned up his cape, and went forwards.
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. xii. 190 To see the stream of ladies, gliding along the slippery sidewalks, with..quilted hoods, boas, and sable capes.
1862 C. M. Yonge Countess Kate vii. 117 Adelaide had meantime picked out a nice black silk cape.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 274 Such rain as they..caught in their oilskin capes.
1888 N.E.D. at Cape Mod. A policeman in his waterproof cape. The fur capes at present worn by ladies.
b. cape and sword (also cape and cloak): phrase used to characterize romantic fiction or drama with a more or less historical background. Cf. cloak and sword adj. at cloak n. Compounds 3.Cf. French roman de cape et d'épée.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > other types or branches
satyric1693
legitimate1826
boulevard theatre1838
satyr drama1839
tragicomic1842
costume drama1847
Sardoodledom1895
slice of life1895
cape and sword (also cape and cloak)1898
total theatre1935
epic theatre1938
Theatre of Cruelty1954
music theatre1957
psychodramatics1957
reader's theatre1957
metatheatre1960
Theatre of the Absurd1961
nautanki1962
Theatre of Fact1966
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective] > types of novel
picaresque1822
Gothic1825
Minerva press1843
yellow1843
western1846
bluggy1876
cape and sword (also cape and cloak)1898
Mills & Boon1912
straight1936
blockbusting1943
Mills and Boony1946
private eye1946
police procedural1957
thrillerish1957
porno-Gothic1968
romantic1977
neo-noir1986
bonkbusting1993
1898 Westm. Gaz. 3 Nov. 2/3 Plays of poetry and passion, Cape and cloak, are all the fashion.
1898 Daily News 4 Nov. 3/5 The drama of the ‘Cape and Sword’.
1910 Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 6/4 The cape-and-sword romanticism of Anthony Hope.
c. transferred. The short feathers on a fowl's back falling below the hackle.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > on back
scapular1766
mantle1840
scapulary1854
stragulum1891
cape1899
1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 548 Xanthomelus aureus..has a..black throat, tail, and part of wings and back, and a cape of hackled plumes falling over the last.
Compounds
C1. cape-bonnet, cape-cloak, cape-coat.
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1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. D2v A pick-tooth in his hat, a cape cloak, and a long stocking.
1691 London Gaz. No. 2631/4 A thin flaxen Hair'd Man, with a black Hat..a brown Frize Cape-Coat.
1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xix. 131 A young girl..dressed in homespun, with a cracker or cape bonnet of the same material.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 247 Decanting secrets out of the mouth of one cape-bonnet into that of another.
C2.
cape-work n. ‘work’ done by a bullfighter in exciting and enraging the bull with his cape.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun] > actions of bullfighter
pass1835
recibir1838
suerte1838
volapié1838
larga1902
recibiendo1902
recorte1909
estocada1910
quite1924
natural1925
piccing1925
cape-work1926
pic1926
Veronica1926
veronique1931
banderilling1932
farol1932
mariposa1932
media vuelta1932
molinete1932
lidia1952
manoletina1952
revolera1952
orteguina1957
rejoneo1961
1926 E. Hemingway Fiesta (1927) xv. 193 She liked Romero's cape-work.
1962 Guardian 29 Oct. 5/6 Instead of practising their capework during idle moments, Spanish boys nowadays play..football.
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/keɪp/, U.S. /keɪp/ 1. A piece of land jutting into the sea; a projecting headland or promontory.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun]
starteOE
nessOE
snookc1236
head1315
bill1382
foreland?a1400
capec1405
nook?a1425
mull1429
headland?c1475
point?c1475
nese1497
peak1548
promontory1548
arma1552
reach1562
butt1598
promontorea1600
horn1601
naze1605
promonta1607
bay1611
abutment1613
promontorium1621
noup1701
lingula1753
scaw1821
tang1822
odd1869
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 410 Fro Gootlond to the cape of Fynysteere.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iii. f. 13v Inclosed on bothe sydes with capes or poyntes which receaue the water.
1589 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations ii. 335 A Cape or headland, called Suetinose.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. xi. 189 A Promontorie is a high mountaine bending it selfe into the sea: the head whereof is called a Cape.
1799 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (ed. 2) III. 8 Between Cape Horn and the Cape of Good-Hope.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xxxix. 80 Childe Harold hail'd Leucadia's cape afar.
2. the Cape: some familiar headland; esp. the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Hence familiarly for Cape Colony (now historical), Cape Province (now historical), the Western Cape, and elliptically for Cape funds, wine (Cape wine at Compounds 1a), wool, etc.; also for Cape leather or capeskin (capeskin n.). Also attributive.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > specific
fare1653
the Cape1667
UP1881
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 641 Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape . View more context for this quotation
1686 London Gaz. No. 2180/4 The 25th of June they all sailed from the Cape.
1829 R. Southey Inscriptions Caledonian Canal i, in A. Cunningham Anniversary 194 Vessels which must else have braved The formidable cape, and have essayed The perils of the Hyperborean sea.
1833 T. Hood in Comic Ann. ii Bucellas made handy, With Cape and bad Brandy.
1884 York Herald 23 Aug. 7/2 Wool Markets..Capes are without improvement.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Oct. 5/2 Capes..were practically unsaleable at the beginning of this week, investors fighting shy of the stock of a colony whose future, etc.
a1888 Mod. He has gone out to the Cape, to try sheep-farming.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 228/2 Men's Genuine Medium Weight Cape Goat Driving Gloves.
1915 K. J. Adcock Leather ii. 11 Large quantities of Cape hides are sent to England.
1921 B. E. Ellis Gloves & Glove Trade iv. 58 Real Cape gloves are usually bark-tanned..but many gloves sold as ‘Capes’ are tawed and dyed by the dipping process.
1929 Penberthy's Sale Catal. Mar. 26 Men's English Tan Cape,..Boulton cut.
1956 Gloss. Leather Terms (B.S.I.) 7 Cape, originally a soft, grain gloving or clothing leather made from South African hair sheep skin; now any similar leather made from hair sheep skin, but not finished leather made from E.I. native vegetable tanned hair sheep skin.
3. Cape fly-away n. (see quot.).
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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Terre de beurre, cape fly-away, a cant phrase applied to any illusive appearance of land in the horizontal clouds.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Cape Fly-away, a cloud-bank on the horizon, mistaken for land, which disappears as the ship advances.
Compounds
C1.
a. Chiefly in sense 2, as in Cape wine, Cape region, Cape boor, etc.; esp. in numerous names of animals, plants, etc. found at the Cape of Good Hope, as Cape aloe, Cape ant-eater, Cape ash, Cape badger, Cape ebony, Cape heath, Cape marmot, etc. (See also Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Historical Princ. (1996) for many other specific names.)
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1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxxiv. 351 I have seen it drunk..for red Cape wine.
1822 Burrowes Encycl. V. 623/2 A cape boor bestows no more labour on his farm than is absolutely necessary.
b.
Cape blue asbestos n. crocidolite occurring in Cape Colony.
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1928 Observer 1 July 3 The history of the industry begins with the mining of crocidolite, commonly known as Cape Blue asbestos, in the Cape Province, in 1891.
Cape cart n. a two-wheeled, horse-drawn hooded cart peculiar to South Africa.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > covered
carriole1728
Cape cart1877
1877 M. A. Barker Year's Housek. S. Afr. i. 17 It was decided that I ought to take a drive in a Cape cart.
1881 F. R. Statham Blacks, Boers, & British 53 Do you know what a Cape cart is? It is a peculiar, but pleasant, institution—something like what was once in England called a ‘Whitechapel’.
1910 J. Buchan Prester John vii. 134 The half-caste who called him ‘Sir’ and drove his Cape-cart.
Cape clouds n. = Magellanic Clouds at cloud n. 4.
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1795 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. (ed. 2) II. 208 Charles' wain..was here sunk below the horizon, and the Cape clouds, as two dark spots in the firmament are called, seemed to be a similar token to the inhabitants here.
1880 A. Giberne Sun, Moon, & Stars 269 The famous Magellanic Clouds in the southern heavens. Sometimes they are called the Cape Clouds.
1921 H. J. Mandelbrote tr. O. F. Mentzel Descr. Cape of Good Hope I. 17 His object was merely to observe the two so-called Cape clouds above the Table Mountain..two small stars which, like the Milky Way, appeared to be made up of numerous nebulous stars.
2007 M. D. Heifetz & W. Tirion Walk through Southern Sky 39/2 The Magellanic Clouds, or Clouds of Magellan, originally called the Cape Clouds, were discovered before the time of the explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Cape cobra n. a cobra ( Naja nivea) of southern Africa, variable in colouring.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > naja nivea (Cape cobra)
Cape cobra1910
1910 F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. vi. 74 The Cape Cobra (Naia flava). Geel Slang, Bruin Slang, Spung Slang. The Cape Cobra is by far the commonest species of Cobra inhabiting South Africa.
1959 Cape Argus 31 Oct. 9/7 Cape cobras and puffadders provide most of the venom.
Cape doctor n. a strong south-east wind in South Africa (cf. doctor n. 7b).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > south-east > specifically in South Africa
black south-easter1836
Cape doctor1861
1861 L. Duff-Gordon Let. 19 Oct. (1875) 213 It portends a ‘south-easter’... This wind..is the Cape doctor, and keeps away cholera, fevers [etc.].
1881 F. R. Statham Blacks, Boers, & Brit. 54 For it is here that the celebrated south-easter—the ‘Cape Doctor’, as Anglo-Indians were in olden days wont to call it—blows its strongest. And the ‘Cape Doctor's’ strongest is no joke.
1890 A. Martin Home Life Ostrich Farm 15 That rough but benevolent south-east wind, which, owing to its kindly property of sweeping away the germs of disease, is called ‘the Cape doctor’.
1966 Listener 18 Aug. 237/2 The Cape south-easter was blowing—the wind they call the Cape doctor because it blows the rubbish from the streets.
Cape Dutch n. now chiefly historical (a) South Africans of Dutch extraction regarded collectively; (b) the Dutch spoken in South Africa; also as adj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > Afrikaner
Hollander1699
Afrikaner1820
Afrikander1822
Cape Dutch1826
trek Boer1835
Low Dutch1900
trek-farmer1912
Boer1956
boertjie1956
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Dutch > Afrikaans
Dutch1731
Cape Dutch1826
South African Dutch1871
kitchen Dutch1880
Afrikaans1885
Afrikander1886
taal1896
1826 New Monthly Mag. 17 488 The Cape Dutch..possess many estimable qualities.
1850 J. W. Appleyard Kafir Lang. 11 A grammar, [with] ‘Proeve van Kaapsch Taaleigen’, where the peculiarities of Cape-Dutch usage are exposed.
1852 Punch 3 July 19/1 They've christened me Zekoe—that's Cape Dutch for Sea-Cow!
1944 Archit. Rev. 96 97/1 The ‘Cape Dutch’ style in town and farm building.
Cape elk n. now rare = eland n.
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1786 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) II. xiv. 204 Eland, or Kaapse Eland, (the Cape elk, or more properly the elk-antilope)..is a name given by the colonists to a species of gazel which is somewhat larger and clumsier..than the hartbeest.
1901 Agric. Jrnl. (Dept. Agric. Cape Good Hope) 4 July 27 The Eland, Cape Elk, Canna, or Impofo.
Cape gooseberry n. Physalis peruviana, a herb of the family Solanaceæ, native to South America, or its fruit.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > physalis or Cape gooseberry
Physalis1754
Cape gooseberry1833
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > physalis plant
Physalis1754
Cape gooseberry1833
1833 W. F. W. Owen Voy. II. xix. 238 The physalis (Cape gooseberry, or winter cherry) is here..a most delicious fruit.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 328 Physalis edulis—Cape Gooseberry or Winter Cherry.
1870 Cape Monthly Mag. Oct. 218 I prefer the preserved Cape gooseberry to everything I have tasted.
1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 140 The Cape Gooseberry is a species of winter cherry.
Cape-hen n. a small kind of Albatross.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Procellaria > procellaria aequinoctialis (Cape-hen)
Cape-hen1775
stinkard1850
stink-pot1865
stinker1896
1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 408 An uncommon birdlike Cape hen.
Cape jasmine n. Gardenia florida.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > gardenias
Cape jasmine1761
gardenia1761
Cape jasminea1776
katjiepiering1793
tiare1888
1761 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 932 The Cape Jasmine..is the most rare and beautiful shrub, that has yet been introduced into the European gardens.
Cape jasmine n. (also Cape jessamine) any of various flowers of the genus Gardenia, esp. G. jasminoides.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > gardenias
Cape jasmine1761
gardenia1761
Cape jasminea1776
katjiepiering1793
tiare1888
a1776 J. Schaw Jrnl. Lady of Quality (1921) 246 While we were admiring a row of cape jessamine, which even now is covered with flowers.
1804 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 II. 82 The Gardenia Thunbergia, or the wild Cape Jessamine.
1858 T. G. Vielé Following Drum 58 Cape jessamine hedges.
Cape lobster n. the Cape crawfish (see crayfish n. 3c).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > lobster
lobstera1000
sea crayfishc1440
long oyster1622
red crab1674
crevis fish1688
crayfish1748
Norway lobster1777
Cape lobster1793
spiny lobster1819
langouste1832
thorny lobster1833
écrevisse1854
chicken lobster1871
homarine1880
Dublin prawn1911
langostino1915
scampi1928
langoustine1946
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Palinuridae
sea-crayfish1601
long oyster1622
red crab1674
crevis fish1688
sea-crawfish1694
crayfish1748
spring lobster1789
Cape lobster1793
rock lobster1810
spiny lobster1819
langouste1832
thorny lobster1833
crayfish1853
kreef1863
langosta1924
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > member of family Cancridae (rock crab)
partan1428
punger1586
marble crab1668
sea-cock1668
rock crab1736
Cape lobster1793
partan-crab1893
Dungeness crab1896
1793 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. I. 240 The Cape lobster (Cancer arctos)..has no large claws, and is craggy all over.
1902 H. J. Duckitt Hilda's Diary Cape Housekeeper 47 ‘Crayfish’, or ‘Kreeft’, is also plentiful all through the summer. We also call it ‘Cape lobster’.
1913 W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Colony ii. 51 The ‘Cape lobster’, as it [sc. the crawfish] is sometimes called.
Cape marigold n. = dimorphotheca n.
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Cape mole n. (a) the mole-rat Bathyergus maritimus ( Cent. Dict. 1890); (b) the golden mole.
Cape ox n. Bos caffer.
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1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 378/2 The small Hindoo ox with a hump on the chine, and the African Cape ox.
Cape people n. South African natives of mixed descent.
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1900 J. Ralph Towards Pretoria i. 58 ‘Cape people’, who look like negroes, but are a mixture of Dutch, Hottentots, and Bushmen.
Cape pigeon n. a pigeon-sized petrel, Daption capensis.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Daptian
pintado1611
hill pigeon1731
Cape pigeon1798
1798 S. H. Wilcocke tr. J. S. Stavorinus Voy. E. Indies II. 31 We saw..the birds called ‘cape-pigeons’.
1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 290 Albatrosses and Cape Pigeons about.
Cape robin n. a species of chat-like thrush, Cossypha caffra.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Cossypha (robin-chat)
piet-my-vrou1835
Cape robin1867
Natal robin1901
robin-chat1923
1867 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 132 Bessonornis Phoenicurus..is the Cape ‘robin’.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 114 Cape robin.—Cossypha caffra, a bird that resembles the English robin somewhat, but is without the red breast.
Cape salmon n. name given to various fishes having a resemblance to the European salmon, esp. the geelbek n. and the kabeljou n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Johnius (kabeljou)
kabeljou1731
Cape salmon1846
kob1906
salmon bass1929
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Atractoscion (geelbek)
Cape salmon1846
geelbek1853
trag1951
1846 H. H. Methuen Life in Wilderness i. 17 The cape salmon, a heavy fish, in size and in external aspect somewhat resembling its British namesake.
1866 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 1 64/2 Cape Salmon.—Under this name the ‘Geelbeck’..has been eulogized... Why call it Cape Salmon?
1973 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 13 June 102 The species being tagged include grunter and white steenbras, elf (shad), kob (kabeljauw or Cape Salmon in Natal) haarders (mullet) and leervis (garrick).
Cape smoke n. slang South African brandy.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > types of brandy
Nants1653
French brandy1655
snapdragon1676
Cognac brandy1687
guildive1698
aguardiente1752
cognac1755
Armagnac1797
Jew brandy1817
pisco1825
Cape smoke1846
marc1848
fine champagne1864
burnt brandy1880
dop1889
grape-brandy1892
grappa1893
beno1903
V.S.O.P.1907
jackass brandy1909
fine1923
Napoleon brandy1930
Remy Martin1932
framboise1933
mampoer1934
witblits1934
Metaxa1938
Soberano1963
Napoleon1968
1846 H. H. Methuen Life in Wilderness viii. 232 Revelling in the luxuries of Cape smoke, or brandy, and sheep-tail fat.
a1871 J. Goldswain Chron. (1946) I. 36 I did not stop at this place Long for thear was to much Cape Smoke.
1954 ‘D. Divine’ Golden Fool v. 47 It was a better brandy than the Cape Smoke most of them drank.
Cape sparrow n. the South African bird Passer melanurus; mossie n.
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Cape sparrow1936
1936 E. L. Gill First Guide S. Afr. Birds 21 Cape Sparrow, Mossie, a very common bird about Cape Town and up the west coast region, and thence across the Karroo and High Veld.
1952 Cape Times 8 Nov. (Week-end Mag.) 6/5 What a handsome fellow the cock Cape sparrow is.
Cape wagon n. (see quot. 1850).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > large and powerful
Cape wagon1798
1798 A. Barnard Let. 6 June in S. Afr. a Cent. Ago (1901) viii. 157 Of course, it was a Cape waggon; any other sort..is impossible..for such an excursion.
1837 J. E. Alexander Narr. Voy. Observ. W. Afr. xiv. 348 It is quite astonishing to a stranger what severe work Cape wagons undergo without injury.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. ii. 22 The Cape waggon is a large and powerful, yet loosely-constructed vehicle, running on four wheels.
Cape weed n. (a) Roccella tinctoria ‘a dye lichen, obtained from the Cape de Verde Islands’ ( Treasury Bot. 1866); (b) a common yellow-flowered herb, Cryptostemma calendulaceum, now a troublesome weed in Australia and New Zealand; (c) (see quot. 1933).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > other weeds
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Cape weed1878
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1878 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1877 10 367 The Cape weed, which is plentiful in Auckland.
1884 W. R. Guilfoyle Austral. Bot. (ed. 2) 107 Cape Weed, Cryptostemma calendulacea. (Natural Order, Compositæ). This weed, which has proved such a pest in many parts of Victoria, was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, as a fodder plant.
1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 23 Sept. 13/7 Cape Weed, Hypochaeris radicator. The English catsear is always so called in Canterbury.
1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 261/2 Capeweed is now so common on good pasture land..that the whole countryside may become a sea of yellow during late spring.
C2. attributive and in other combinations in other senses; as cape-wise adv.
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1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 207 It jutted over the stream cape-wise.
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Cape gannet n. the southern African gannet, Sula capensis (also called Morus capensis) (family Sulidae), which is predominantly white with a yellow head and black tail.
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1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 111 Cape gannet, Sula capensis. See Malagas.
1936 E. L. Gill First Guide S. Afr. Birds 186 Malagas, Malgas, Cape Gannet; Morus capensis. This is the gannet of the South African guano islands.
1995 New Scientist 25 Feb. 40/1 Similarly, the photograph of Cape gannet (another vagrant to Australia) show birds at a nesting colony in South Africa, and none of the distinguishing features between this species, and the very similar Australasian gannet, can be seen.
Cape vulture n. a large vulture of southern Africa, Gyps coprotheres, having pale plumage with dark flight feathers.
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1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) II. 32 (heading) The Cape Vulture.
1936 E. L. Gill First Guide to S. Afr. Birds 133 Cape Vulture... This is the vulture of the Cape Province... Its general colour is a pale hoary brown, the quills nearly black.
2010 Daily Tel. 7 June 11/5 Killing of vultures for so-called traditional use could render the Cape vulture extinct in some parts of South Africa.
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Cape plane n. a small tree, Ochna arborea (family Ochnaceae), of southern and eastern parts of South Africa, having smooth mottled bark and bright yellow flowers; (also) the hard, heavy wood of this tree, which is reddish in colour and used for fencing, tool handles, etc.; also called rooihout.
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1886 J. Noble Handbk. Cape Good Hope 147 (table) Cape Plane... Ochna arborea.
1907 D. E. Hutchins Rep. Forests Kenia Colonial Rep. 21 It is closely allied to Ochna arborea, the so-called ‘Cape Plane’ of South Africa, a tree notable for its tall straight growth.
1973 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 28 May 13/2 No self-respecting woodcutter would have the handle of his axe made from any timber other than ‘rooihout’ (Cape plane).
2005 W. Oliver & S. Oliver Touring in S. Afr. (ed. 2) 70 The southern plateau slopes and the banks of the river are draped in indigenous forest, consisting of species such as white pear, kookoo berry, Cape plane and cheesewood.
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Cape honeysuckle n. either of two southern African plants with nectar-rich, red or orange flowers: (originally) † Burchellia bubalina (family Rubiaceae), which is a shrub or small tree (obsolete rare); and (in later use) Tecoma capensis (family Bignoniaceae), which is a scrambling shrub that is often cultivated.
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1815 Encycl. Londinensis XIII. 629/1 Lonicera bubalina, or Cape honeysuckle... Found by Sparrman at the Cape of Good Hope, where the dutch call it buffelhorn.
1875–84 Layard's Birds S. Afr. 316 At East London, however, he says that it [sc. Amethyst Sun-bird] is very abundant on the Tecoma (Cape Honeysuckle).
1966 A. Batten & H. Bokelmann Wild Flowers Eastern Cape 136 Tecomaria capensis..(Tecoma, Cape Honeysuckle).
2010 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 6 Mar. p4 You might try beach morning glory or cape honeysuckle, which could be trained to climb a trellis.
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Cape fox n. any of several mammals of the dog family ( Canidae) native to southern Africa; (in later use) spec. a small fox, Vulpes chama, having a silvery-grey coat with pale tawny underparts and a bushy tail with a black tip (also called silver fox).
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1793 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. II. 78 The Hottentots universally wore a bag just before the parts of shame, which was made of the grey part of the back of the Cape fox [Sw. af Capska Räven], and was fastened round the body with a thong.
1853 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 55 208 The Jackal, or Cape Fox (Canis mesomelas), affords good coursing in open country, and English foxhounds have been trained to scent and follow him.
2012 Mail & Guardian (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 31 May The traps were often responsible for the deaths of non-target animals such as Cape foxes and leopards.
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† capen.4
Old Law.
A judicial writ (now abolished) relative to a plea of lands or tenements; so named from its first word. Divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, and cape parvum, or petit cape.
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1292 Britton iii. i. §4 A respouns par le graunt Cape et par le petit. transl. To answer by the great and little Cape.]
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xii. f. 55 Replevyne of land upon a grand cape in olde time.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) (at cited word) Grand Cape lyeth before apparance, and petit Cape after..By the grand Cape the tenant is summoned to answer to the default, and over to the demandant: Petit Cape summoneth the tenant to answer to the default onely.
1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
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† capen.5
Obsolete exc. dialect.
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1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples 22 To negotiate with the cape leaders of the people.
1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. I. 207 Setting the plants behind the ‘cape-sod’, or first-turned spit.
1812 H. E. Strickland Agric. E. Riding 99 Turning the cape-sod, and planting the quickwood.
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† capev.1
Nautical. Obsolete.
intransitive. To head, keep a course, bear up; to drift. Said of sailors and of ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction
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to stand along1600
to bear away1614
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to lay up1832
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. viii. 125 The port quhamto we cappit wes ful large.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 124 Sum with ane torss la capand on the wynd.
a1586 in Maitland Folio MS (1919) 133 That ȝe man cap be wynd and waw.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 41 Experience to try her drift, or how she capes.
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum To Cap,..used of a ship, in the trials of the running or setting of currents.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) How does she cape? How does she lie her course?
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ˈcaping n.
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1595 J. Davis Seamans Secrets i. sig. G2v The ship..may make her way 2. or 3. pointes from her caping.
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† capev.2
Obsolete.
To take or seize as a privateer; also, to go a privateering.
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1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. I. 220 (Jam.) Some private persons made themselves rich by caping or privateering upon the Dutch.
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ˈcaping n.
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a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xi. 489 Some of our grandees get much by their caping.
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