different between capeline vs capelin

English

Etymology

French

Noun

capeline (plural capelines)

1. (historical) A steel skullcap formerly worn by members of the military.
2. (historical) A kind of cavalry helmet seen in the English Civil War.
3. (historical) A light woollen hood worn by ladies going out to an evening party.
4. A cap-shaped bandage for the head or for the stump of an amputated limb.

Synonyms

• (cavalry helmet): lobster-tail pot

Anagrams

• paceline

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French capelan, from Provençal and Old Occitan capelan, from Late Latin cappell?nus (“chaplain”). Doublet of chaplain.

Noun

capelin (plural capelins or capelin)

1. Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
   • 1983, Bodil Kaalund, Kenneth Tindall (translator), The Art of Greenland: Sculpture, Crafts, Painting, page 161,

     The birds are spread - so that we can see what they are like; and the men catching capelins are elevated up out of the umiak, where they practically float on the gunwale, so that we can perceive that they are the main figures and see their work-movements (fig. 250).

Translations

Anagrams

• Calpine, capline, in place, panicle, pelican, pinacle