Noun: cappuccio
| Singular | cappuccio |
| Plural | cappuccios; cappucci |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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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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:]
Nouns inflected like cappuccio
impresario,
carroccio,
conservatorio,
arpeggio,
imbroglio,
pasticcio,
solfeggio,
fascio,
cappuccio,
capriccio,
rifugio,
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cappuccio. Doublet of capuche. See: Italian Nouns '
cappuccio'.