# caped

Pronunciation: US say "KAYPT" /ˈkeɪpt/; UK

## Adjective

1. Wearing one or more capes.
   - Simple: Wearing a cape, or more than one.
   - _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._
2. Wearing a cape of the kind named by the first part of a compound, as in red-caped or fur-caped.
   - Simple: Wearing a certain kind of cape, used in words like red-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._
3. Canceled; said of a train or other scheduled rail service. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Canceled, used about a train that will not run.
   - _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._

## Origin

Formed from cape + -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/caped (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).