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- noun UK A lightweight
waterproof parka .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lightweight parka; waterproof
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Examples
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Beginning pre-war, in the 1930s, there were groups of industrialists, which we found out were collaborating in the shadows, the "cagoule" they were called ... and they went on to build and lead (or already were) some of the biggest companies in France (L'Oreal, Renault, etc) just as Standard Oil and others had done in the U.S.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Choosing Sides in a 1930s-like Economy 2010
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Beginning pre-war, in the 1930s, there were groups of industrialists, which we found out were collaborating in the shadows, the "cagoule" they were called ... and they went on to build and lead (or already were) some of the biggest companies in France (L'Oreal, Renault, etc) just as Standard Oil and others had done in the U.S.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Choosing Sides in a 1930s-like Economy 2010
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I could walk there in my dripping cagoule and muddy boots and spend an hour browsing the shelves.
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A cagoule and brolly might seem sufficient but to be safe it might be best to take along a small boat.
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A cagoule and brolly might seem sufficient but to be safe it might be best to take along a small boat.
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Just the list of essentials each competitor was obliged to carry three Sundays ago had a whiff of those resolute years when the race was developed, a cagoule being listed as a necessity.
Country diary: Kentmere Tony Greenbank 2010
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The rain rattled on a modern cagoule hood, rather than on a Gallic pattern helmet.
zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth zornhau 2010
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Best go with the sheet and you can put your cagoule on underneath.
What is it about the English and their obsession with ghosts? David Mitchell 2010
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The ECC is old, quiet and draped in a cladding of house dust and summer‑tog cagoule.
IPL4 is the ideal accompaniment to the parochial intrigue of ECC112 | Barney Ronay 2011
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I did not get up many Munros last year and so have missed the genteel banter of the wellies and cagoule brigade: "It's still raining"; "There's a good three-for-two offer at Tiso's"; and: "I cannae wait to get these aff."
2010 – a Mourinho of a year, a special one | Kevin McKenna 2011
bilby commented on the word cagoule
"The beauty of Pakistan is that you don’t know that they’re going to do this. Although it seems fairly typical, there’s also a good chance they could crumple like a paper cagoule."
- King Cricket, Quite simply the most watchable side in cricket, kingcricket.co.uk, 5 Nov 2009.
November 5, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word cagoule
"I left Stockwell in cagoule and cashmere pullover, but as I gain Putney Bridge I strip to my own T-shirt and sit at a zinc-topped table outside a branch of Carluccio's, sipping a latte and eating an almond pastry."
Psychogeography by Will Self, 28
October 11, 2010
qms commented on the word cagoule
No storm makes a proud Frenchman snool
No matter how windy and cruel.
Courage, mon ami!
With Gallic esprit
Look cool in your boots and cagoule!
April 2, 2018