- 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 garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood,
resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. - 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. - Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or
horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella. - A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft
of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
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