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Capuchin

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.)

    1. 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.

    2. Other species of Cabus, as Cabus fatuellus (the brown capucine or horned capucine.), Cabus albifrons (the cararara), and Cabus apella.

    3. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Capuchin

1520s, from Middle French capuchin (16c., Modern French capucin), from Italian capuccino, diminutive of capuccio "hood," augmentative of cappa (see cap (n.)). Friar of the Order of St. Francis, under the rule of 1528, so called from the pointed hoods on their cloaks. As a type of monkey, 1785, from the shape of the hair on its head, thought to resemble a cowl.

Wiktionary
capuchin

n. A capuchin monkey.

WordNet
capuchin
  1. n. a hooded cloak for women

  2. monkey of Central America and South America having a cowl of thick hair on the head [syn: ringtail, Cebus capucinus]

Wikipedia
Capuchin

Capuchin can refer to:

  • Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, an order of Roman Catholic friars
  • Capuchin Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic contemplative religious sisters
  • Capuchin monkey, primates of the genus Cebus considered among the most intelligent of the New World monkeys (those native to the Americas), named after the friars
  • Capuchin Crypt, a room located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome, Italy
  • Old Dutch Capuchine, a breed of fancy pigeon

Usage examples of "capuchin".

The Capuchin answered me with a torrent of abuse, so the count ordered a pair of scissors to be brought, that the beards of the filthy rogues might be cut off.

Dominican and Capuchin convents of that city, until proper houses could be prepared for their reception at Tivoli and Frescati.

I saw my fair one going out wearing a capuchin, and followed by her family.

She looked something like a capuchin, the organ-grinder monkey that would one day roam the forests of South America, and was about that size.

He was no longer a Capuchin monkey, but a full-grown silverback gorilla.

After the meal was over, I asked her to walk with me in the garden of the Capuchin Monastery, which was close at hand.

The Capuchin made but a poor answer, and as I thought the count to be in the right I procceded to back him up, telling the friar he ought to be ashamed at having committed the sin of pride, so strictly condemned by the rules of his order.

He desired me to write to the superior of the Jesuits that he would not apply to the Capuchins, because they were no better than atheists, and that that was the reason of the great dislike of Saint-Francis for them.

Doctor Gozzi told me that there could not be the shadow of a doubt that his unfortunate sister was possessed, as, if she had only been mad, she never would have so cruelly ill-treated the Capuchin, Prospero, and he determined to place her under the care of Father Mancia.

I added that I could not, much to my regret, obey him, and that if I had meant to live in slovenliness, I would have become a Capuchin and not an abbe.

It was in vain that I reminded him of the fact that, in the time of Saint-Francis, there were neither Capuchins nor Recollets.

They wear the Capuchin habit out of devotion, and you would not find a chemise on one of them.

I could not conceive what her purpose was in playing such a part. The Capuchin dined with us, and during the meal he uttered a good deal of nonsense.

But I cannot help saying that the preference given by your devils to the exorcism of that handsome monk over the incantations of the ugly Capuchin is likely to give birth to remarks rather detrimental to your honour.

The Capuchin dined with us, and during the meal he uttered a good deal of nonsense.