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Definition of Capes
1. cape [n] - See also: cape
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capes
Literary usage of Capes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Manual of Method by Alfred Hezekiah Garlick (1896)
"A lesson on capes follows as a typical illustration of the method of giving ...
Kinds of capes. capes are known by different names, according to the forms ..."
2. A System of Physical Geography: Containing a Description of the Natural by David M. Warren (1860)
"Many inferior projections of land, known as capes or points, extending a short
distance ... Name the principal capes along the coast of the United States. ..."
3. Elements of Meteorology, with Questions for Examination, Designed for by John Brocklesby (1869)
"capes. The reason for the existence of fogs over capes and headlands has already
been given, ... On the 24th of Why over capes ? Why over shoals ? ..."
4. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"Arrival of the British Fleet and of British Forces Off the Delaware capes.
Extract of a Letter from Colo. HB Livingston dated at Phild'ia the 4th of August ..."
5. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"But the great, haughty, silent capes themselves; I doubt if any crack points, or
hills, or historic places of note, or anything of the kind elsewhere in the ..."
6. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the by P. L. Jacob (1876)
"Progress of Dress: Trousers, Hose, Shoes, Coats, Surcoats, capes.—Changes in the
Fashions of ... Cloaks and capes.—Edicts against Extravagant Fashions. ..."
7. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1908)
"In this distance of nearly 2 miles, the fault-trace emerges from the water at a
number of points where little capes project into the lake. ..."
8. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"... Roger de Pare, and many others. the tithes, recovering for the church by
entreaties and purchase the portions thereof which three knights, Osbern capes, ..."
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