A capirote is a Catholic pointed hat of conical form that is used in Spain and Hispanic countries by members of a confraternity of penitents. It is part...

cap made of paper and called a capirote was prescribed for sinners and penitents during the Spanish Inquisition. Capirote Fool's cap Sanbenito Tin foil...

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;...

tunic became known as a sambenito; a conical cap, denominated coroza (and capirote), of the same material and motifs as the corresponding sambenito, would...

confraternities for processions (e.g., the Semana Santa of Sevilla, who wore the Capirote). Pointed hats are still worn in the rural Louisiana Mardi Gras celebrations...

or Saint Nicholas) is Costa Rica's version of Santa Claus. Spain portal Capirote Running of the Bulls La Tomatina "Spanish village holds baby jump". BBC...

provide shade, worn with a hood or coif, Tudor/Elizabethan Bonnet head Capirote, traditionally worn by the Nazarenos of a Spanish Brotherhood during solemn...

assailant did not have bunny ears on his head, but was wearing a white capirote of some sort. They both remembered seeing his face clearly, but in the...

Italy mortifying the flesh with disciplines in a seven-hour procession; capirote are worn by penitents so that attention is not drawn towards themselves...

the hood are uncertain; it may have been appropriated from the Spanish capirote hood, or it may be traced to the uniform of Southern Mardi Gras celebrations...