capuchin

capuchin is a Noun

Definition:

[1] 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] 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.

[4] Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.

[5] 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

[6] The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa.