SCAPULAR

I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Late Latin, from Latin scapula shoulder Date: 15th century 1. a long wide band of cloth with an opening for the head worn front and back over the shoulders as part of a monastic habit, a pair of small cloth squares joined by shoulder tapes and worn under the clothing on the breast and back as a sacramental and often also as a badge of a third order or confraternity, 2. scapula , one of the feathers covering the base of a bird's wing, II. adjective Etymology: New Latin ~is, from scapula Date: 1713 of or relating to the shoulder, the scapula, or ~s