noun. A monk belonging to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, an independent order of Franciscans founded in Italy in 1525–1528 and dedicated to preaching and missionary work.

noun. A hooded cloak worn by women.

noun. Any of several monkeys of the genus Cebus of Central and South America, having a prehensile tail and often a black or brown cap of hair on top of the head.

noun. A large loose hood worn by women in the eighteenth century.

noun. A hooded cloak of the same period.

noun. A member of a mendicant order of Franciscan monks, founded in Italy in 1528 by Matteo di Bassi, and named from the long pointed capouch or cowl which is the distinguishing mark of their dress.

noun. [lowercase] A variety of pigeon with a range of inverted feathers on the back of the head, like the cap or cowl of a monk.

noun. 3. [lowercase] A South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having black on the head, like the hood or cowl of a Capuchin; hence, any sapajou or monkey of the genus Cebus. Also written capucine. See cut under Cebinæ.

noun. 4. [lowercase] One of the baldheaded fruit-crows of South America, Gymnocephalus calvus.

noun. 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.

noun. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

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noun. 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.

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

noun. A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.

noun. one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa.

noun. A capuchin monkey.

noun. a hooded cloak for women

noun. monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl

"The capuchin is a New World monkey, brown and cute, the size of a scrawny year-old human baby plus a long tail."

cappuccino  capuchin cross  

cloak  new world monkey  platyrrhine  platyrrhinian  

brown capucine  cararara  horned capucine  

Carmelite  Trappist  abstinent  aigrette  chid  

capucine monkey  sai  sajou  sapajou  weeper