caped
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkeɪpt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪpt
Adjective
caped (not comparable)
- Wearing a cape or capes.
- One of Batman’s aliases is "the Caped Crusader".
- (in compounds) Wearing a cape of a specified kind.
- 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4:
- Hella looked about delightedly at all of it, the cafés, the self-contained people, the violent snarl of the traffic, the blue-caped traffic policeman and his white, gleaming club.
- (rail transport, slang) cancelled
Synonyms
- (wearing a cape): becaped
Derived terms
Translations
wearing a cape
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