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Capuchin definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CAPUCHIN, n.
1. A garment for females, consisting of a cloke and hood, made in imitation of the dress of capuchin monks.
2. A pigeon whose head is covered with feathers.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a hooded cloak for women
2: monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl [syn: capuchin, ringtail, Cebus capucinus]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle French, from Old Italian cappuccino, from cappuccio; from his cowl Date: 1589 1. capitalized a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin forming since 1529 an austere branch of the first order of St. Francis of Assisi engaged in missionary work and preaching 2. a hooded cloak for women 3. any of a genus (Cebus) of South and Central American monkeys; especially one (C. capucinus) with the hair on its crown resembling a monk's cowl

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a Franciscan friar of the new rule of 1529. 2 a cloak and hood formerly worn by women. 3 (capuchin) a any monkey of the genus Cebus of S. America, with cowl-like head hair. b a variety of pigeon with head and neck feathers resembling a cowl. Etymology: F f. It. cappuccino f. cappuccio cowl f. cappa CAPE(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Capuchin Cap`u*chin", n. [F. capucin a monk who wears a cowl, fr. It. cappuccio hood. See Capoch.] 1. (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. --Sir W. Scott. 2. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. 3. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai. (b) Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella. (c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck. Capuchin nun, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Franciscan, Minorite, Gray Friar.