cappuccio

plural cappuccios · plural cappucci · alternative capuccio

1. A hood, especially of a cloak; a capuche.

   Instead of a cappuccio, he wears a hat.

   1988, Christiansen, Kanter & Strehlke (Eds.), Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, p. 171

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   Next after him went Doubt, who was yclad / In a discolour'd cote of straunge disguyse, / That at his backe a brode Capuccio had, / And sleeves dependaunt Albanesè-wyse […].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Within the Franciscans, a reformist group split off from the order in 1529 to restore the rigor of the original Rule of St. Francis, even to the point of emulating his four-cornered hood, called a cappuccio.

   1991, James North, A History of the Church, page 388

plural Cappuccios

1. A surname from Italian.