a sleeveless garment of various lengths, fastened around the neck and falling loosely from the shoulders, worn separately or attached to a coat or other outer garment.
2.
the capa of a bullfighter.
–verb (used with object)
3.
(of a matador or capeador during a bullfight) to induce and guide the charge of (a bull) by flourishing a capa.
Origin: 1350–1400; ME (north); OE -cāp (see cope2), reinforced in 16th century by Sp capa < LL cappa hooded cloak, cope2
A sleeveless outer garment fastened at the throat and worn hanging over the shoulders.
A brightly colored cloth used in maneuvering the bull in a bullfight; a capote or muleta.
tr.v.
caped, cap·ing, capes To maneuver (the bull) by means of a cape in a bullfight.
[Middle English cape, partly variant of cope, cope; see cope2, and partly from Anglo-Norman cape (from Medieval Latin cāpa, variant of Late Latin cappa).]
cape 2 (kāp) n.
Abbr. C. A point or head of land projecting into a body of water.
[Middle English cap, from Old French, from Old Provençal, from Latin caput, head; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.]
Cape (kāp) For names of actual capes, see the specific element of the names, for example, Hatteras, Cape; Good Hope, Cape of. Other geographic names beginning with Cape are entered under Cape, for example, Cape Coral, Florida; Cape York Peninsula.
[keyp] 
noun, verb, caped, cap⋅ing.
) pertaining to the Cape of Good Hope or to South Africa: a Cape diamond.