Obs. rare. [? F. *cape à dos ‘cape to back’ (but this does not appear in French Dicts.). Halliwell says Captyhouse occurs in same sense in MS. Arundel 249, lf. 88.] ? A hood; a piece to protect the back of the neck.
c. 1340. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 186. In þe wyse Of a kyngez capados, þat closes his swyre. Ibid., 572. & sythen a crafty capados, closed aloft.
