Obs. A variant of CAPUCHE, a hood or cowl.
1592. Chettle, Kind-Harts Dr. (1841), 47. Conueying a massy sault vnder his capouch.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Capouche, a coul, hood or cover for the head.
1742. Jarvis, Quix., I. IV. xxix. (1885), 171. He … put on him a grey capouch.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), I. Capitium, as some say, a hood, a capouch.
