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- A capirote is a Christian pointed hat of conical form that is used in Italy, Spain and Hispanic countries by members of a confraternity of penitents, particularly...
- cap made of paper and called a capirote was prescribed for sinners and penitents during the Spanish Inquisition. Capirote Fool's cap List of hat styles...
- the faces of the members are covered by elaborate hoods, such as the capirote, as a way of hiding one's identity in order to not ostentatiously draw...
- Saint'/'Divendres Sant'). Historically, a distinctive peaked, masked robe (the capirote) was used to protect the identity of prisoners (from revenge by those wronged)...
- the pasos dressed in penitential robes with capirotes, tall, pointed hoods with eye-holes. The capirotes were designed so the faithful could repent in...
- tunic became known as a sambenito; a conical cap, denominated coroza (and capirote), of the same material and motifs as the corresponding sambenito, would...
- Madrid's Las Ventas bullring after being gored there by a yearling bull named Capirote or RondeƱo (sources differ), thus earning himself the unenviable distinction...
- at the waist by rope belt or a simple girdle, on their heads a pointed Capirote cap made of a leather cone covered in cotton or linen that extends to obscure...
- in public, beaters (battenti) cover their faces with capiroti (singular capirote) in order not to draw attention to themselves as they repent, but to God;...
- Virgin Mary. Parti****nts often wear penitential robes and conical hoods (capirotes), walk barefoot, or carry wooden crosses as acts of penance. While southern...