Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with a cape or tippet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Wearing a
cape or capes. - adjective rail transport, slang
cancelled
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Examples
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Getting called a caped crusader by Jake Tapper was a definite bonus though.
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Getting called a caped crusader by Jake Tapper was a definite bonus though.
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And she's getting some assistance from the close-out crew there, so-called caped crusaders with her parachute and all the other things that you need to have attached to you before you go flying the space shuttle.
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There you see pilot Jim Kelly getting strapped in by one of the so-called caped crusaders here.
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Let's take you quickly live out to the space shuttle Discovery and show you what's going on right now as the so-called caped crusaders, those are the guys in white with the cap there.
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Mark Millar's revered graphic novel brings the super-hero - sometimes quite literally - kicking and screaming into the modern world, grounding costumed vigilantes in the laws of reality more than any film before and thus making the notion of caped crusaders absolutely enthralling again. is every-bit the people's hero: a spectacled, nerdy high-school weed who makes Peter Parker or Clark Kent seem like suave charmers in comparison.
Obsessed With Film Darren Moverley 2010
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Labour posters dubbed the caped figure of Lamont - now a Conservative peer - "Vatman" as the Tories slumped badly in the opinion polls, a position from which they failed to recover in the run up to the 1997 general election.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Watchmen was the first film to reinvigorate the beleaguered genre, and this adaptation of Mark Millar’s revered graphic novel brings the super-hero – sometimes quite literally – kicking and screaming into the modern world, grounding costumed vigilantes in the laws of reality more than any film before and thus making the notion of caped crusaders absolutely enthralling again.
Darren says KICK-ASS really does KICK-ASS!!! | Obsessed With Film 2010
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Batman's always had an unhinged side, however, so it's entirely in character that the caped crusader flaps on with a 55-date tour of UK and Irish arenas.
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Rice, followed-up by Stephanie Meyer, “… modernized and domesticated the vampire, ripping away the traditional narrative from the black-caped, thickly Euro-accented, terror guy you run from, to the handsome, seductive bad-boy next door you want to sleep with,” says Thompson.
VAMPIRES- WHY HERE, WHY NOW? | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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