Definition of Cape

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Definition of Cape

Cape

A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.

To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.

A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.

To gape.

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Cape Quotations

I never play without my cape.
Bela Lugosi

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
William Bligh

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.
William Bligh

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
William Bligh

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.
Lizzie Andrew Borden

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.
Joe Shuster

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
Richard Serra

Cape Translations

Cape in Afrikaans is Kaaps
cape in Dutch is kaap
Cape in Dutch is Kaaps
cape in French is cap
cape in German is Kap, Umhang
cape in Italian is promontorio, ferraiolo
cape in Latin is amiculum
cape in Norwegian is kappe
cape in Spanish is capa, capotillo
cape in Swedish is udde, kappkrage, kap

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