cape

noun
🔊/keɪp/
🔊/keɪp/
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  1. 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披肩;披风;短斗篷
    • a bullfighter’s cape斗牛士的披风
    • He strode out of the room, his black cape flowing behind him.他大步走出房间,黑色斗篷在他身后流淌。
    • Superman's cape超人的披风
    Topics Clothes and Fashionc1
  2. (abbreviation C.)
    (often in place names常用于地名) a piece of high land that sticks out into the sea地角;岬角
    • Cape Horn合恩角
    Topics Geographyc2
  3. 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’.