CAPUCHIN

noun Etymology: Middle French, from Old Italian cappuccino, from cappuccio; from his cowl Date: 1589 a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin forming since 1529 an austere branch of the first order of St. Francis of Assisi engaged in missionary work and preaching, a hooded cloak for women, any of a genus ( Cebus ) of South and Central American monkeys