■ adjective Anatomy & Zoology relating to the shoulder or shoulder blade.
↘ Ornithology denoting a feather covering the shoulder, growing above the region where the wing joins the body.
■ noun
1》 a short monastic cloak covering the shoulders.
↘a symbol of affiliation to an ecclesiastical order, consisting of two strips of cloth hanging down the breast and back and joined across the shoulders.
2》 Medicine a bandage passing over and around the shoulders.
Origin
C15: from late L. ~e , from scapula 'shoulder'.