Also 7 capuch, -uce, cappuce. See also CAPOUCH. [a. F. capuche (also capuce), ad. It. cappuccio (= Sp. capucho), augm. of cappa: see CAP, CAPE.] The hood of a cloak; spec. that of the Capuchin monks.
a. 1600. Aberdeen Register (Jam.). Ane sie [i.e., say] capusche.
1611. Cotgr., Capuchon, a Capuche; a Monks Cowle, or Hood … also, the hood of a cloake.
1658. Cleveland, Rustick Ramp., Wks. (1687), 424. It was their Sport … to snatch off his Hood or Capuch (which was a part of the Cloak, or outward Garment worn then, and served to cover the Head).
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, I. II. 46. He put his Cappuce or Cowle upon his head.
1726. Cavallier, Mem., I. 49. Nothing else was to be seen there but Cassocks and Capuches.
1843. G. P. R. James, Forest Days (1847), 105. A jolly friar, clothed in grey, with his capuche thrown back.
Hence Capuched a., hooded.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. iii. 236. They are differently cucullated or capuched upon the head and backe.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Capuched, hooded.
