capoch

English edit

Alternative forms edit

capouch

Etymology edit

Compare Spanish capucho, Late Latin caputium, from capa (“cloak”).

Noun edit

capoch (plural capoches)

A hood, especially the hood attached to the gown of a monk.

Synonyms edit

mountier cap

Related terms edit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “capoch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)