A small cape or short sleeveless cloak worn as a fashion garment, often by women.
From French capette, the feminine diminutive of cape, from Latin cappa meaning 'cloak' or 'hood.' The -ette suffix indicates a smaller or feminine version.
The capette was a fashionable woman's garment in the 18th and 19th centuries—small enough to look elegant but practical enough to provide warmth, similar to modern shrugs and wraps.
Diminutive form using feminine suffix '-ette' (French origin). The suffix historically marks objects as small, decorative, or subsidiary, often applied to women's items or subordinate concepts, embedding size/importance hierarchies into gendered linguistic patterns.
Use 'capette' as neutral technical term for the object itself; avoid using '-ette' suffix to diminish or feminize concepts that wouldn't use it in masculine form.
["cap variant","small cap"]
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