caped
- 1Wearing one or more capes.
A caped figure stood at the edge of the rooftop, watching the city below.
Half the guests arrived caped and masked for the costume ball.
Similarcloaked
Note
It is formed from the noun, not a verb: cape plus -ed, the same pattern that turns beard into bearded, meaning simply that a cape is worn. It is not compared, so a figure is caped or not, never more caped. Batman's nickname, the Caped Crusader, shows it fixed in a title.
- 2Wearing a cape of the kind named by the first part of a compound, as in red-caped or fur-caped.
A crowd gathered to watch the scarlet-caped guards change shifts outside the palace.
Fur-caped skaters glided across the frozen pond under the streetlights.
Similarcloaked
Note
In compounds the first element names the cape, usually by its color or material, and a hyphen joins the two: blue-caped, fur-caped, scarlet-caped. The compound usually comes right before its noun, as in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (1956), where a blue-caped traffic policeman stands amid the violent snarl of the traffic.
- 3Canceled; said of a train or other scheduled rail service.
Dispatch says the 6:15 is caped, so the crew can sign off early.
Three evening services were caped after the signal failure near the junction.
Similarcanceled
Note
Rail workers and enthusiasts use this slang among themselves, while announcements and printed notices for passengers keep to canceled. The safe rule follows from that split: caped fits a conversation in the crew room or a message between staff, but anything a traveler will read should say canceled.
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Origin
Formed from cape + -ed.