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capuccio

capuccio is the alternative form of cappuccio.

Meaning of cappuccio

Noun

cappuccio (plural cappuccios or cappucci)

  1. A hood, especially of a cloak; a capuche.
    • 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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Forms of capuccio

pluralcapuccios

Questions about capuccio

What is capuccio the alternative form of?
Capuccio is the alternative form of cappuccio.

Words near capuccio in the dictionary

  1. Capuan
  2. Capuano
  3. Capuanos
  4. Capucao C.
  5. Capucao P.
  6. capuccio
  7. capuccios
  8. capuche
  9. capuched
  10. capuches
  11. capuchin

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