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Definition of Capuchin

1. Noun. A hooded cloak for women.

2. Noun. Monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl.

Definition of Capuchin

1. n. 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.

Definition of Capuchin

1. Proper noun. A member of an order of Roman Catholic friars. ¹

2. Noun. A capuchin monkey. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Capuchin

1. a long-tailed monkey [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Capuchin

capture capture the flag captured capturer capturers captures capturing capuccino capuccino coffee capuccio

capuccios capuche capuched capuches capuchin (current term) capuchin monkey capuchin monkeys capuchins capuera capueras

capul capulets capulin capulin tree capuls caput caput angulare quadrati labii superioris caput breve caput breve musculi bicipitis brachii

Literary usage of Capuchin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He went over to Paris and entered the capuchin Order. In 1599 he was at his own request sent to England; he had hardly landed when he was seized and cast ..."

2. Imperial Vienna: An Account of Its History, Traditions and Arts by A. S. Levetus (1905)
"THE first place of pilgrimage for strangers visiting Vienna is the Neuer-Markt, for here in the crypt of the capuchin Church is the last home of the ..."

3. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"THE capuchin [turning the light upon him, and as if his good looks aroused ... [While RAGUENEAU opens the door for the capuchin, whom CHRISTIAN is showing ..."

4. From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain Record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe (1868)
"While we waited for our dinner, a capuchin at another table enjoyed a moderate ... capuchin and Garçon mutually deplored the poverty of the poor in Naples. ..."

5. The Novelist's Magazine (1782)
"cried the capuchin ... all the owls about me will infal- This piece of capuchin wit made the company very merry, ... to run after the capuchin, ..."

6. Tales of Old Travel by Henry Kingsley (1906)
"THE good capuchin Friar, Merolla, who followed our present hero to the same parts of Congo fifteen years afterwards, gives a far more elaborate account of ..."

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