Obs. [In 15th c. cucu·lle, in 17th cu·cule: ad. L. cucullus hood, cowl.] A hood or cowl of a monk.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 1166. Eke lether cotes us to were honest is, So thair cuculle aboute oure brolles were.
1533. Sir S. Vaughan, in Froude, Hist. Eng. (1856), II. 188. The clokys & cucullys that he sent him out of England.
1677. Owen, Epigrams Engl. (Nares). Of Cotta lately made a monk. Cotta perplex’d with ’s wife a cucule bought.
Hence † Cuculled a., cowled, hooded.
c. 1550. Bale, K. Johan (Camden), 93. Exyle thys monster … With … His cuculled vermyne that unto all myschiefe wakes.
