capuchin

[ UK /kˈæpət‍ʃˌɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a hooded cloak for women
  2. monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl
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How To Use capuchin In A Sentence

  • Attached to the coat was often a hood, known as a capuchin, which might be pulled over the toque as an additional head-covering on a journey through the storm. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
  • His favorite species for this work are chimpanzees, bonobos, and capuchin monkeys.
  • At the age of 15 he entered the noviciate of the Capuchin Friars in Morcone, where on January 22, 1903 he adopted the clothing of Saint Francis and was called Padre Pio.
  • Human as it sounds, loss aversion appears to be a trait we've inherited genetically because it is found in other primates, such as capuchin monkeys. Archive 2008-04-01
  • The brown capuchin monkey, a seed predator, can recognize which fruits are about to open on a Cariniana micrantha tree, above.
  • Like, there was this little capuchin monkey named Crystal, and then [after seeing the film] 'Whoa, that's Adam Sandler, ''' laughs Dawson.
  • The annual Franciscan Retreat will take place on Monday 24th May in the Capuchin Friary at 7.30 pm.
  • By 1923, the Capuchin provincial asked Solanus to keep a notebook of special cases and reported healings related to his consultations.
  • A baby Capuchin monkey clings to its mother at the Chiba zoological park near Tokyo, Japan.
  • At the same time, the expert Capuchin let his master see that he held upon his arm one of his victims, whom he was forming into a docile instrument; this was a young gentleman who wore a very short green cloak, a pourpoint of the same color, close-fitting red breeches, with glittering gold garters below the knee-the costume of the pages of Monsieur. The French Immortals Series — Complete
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