different between scapular vs cloak

English

Etymology

From Latin scapul?re, from Latin scapula (“shoulder”). Compare scapulary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skapj?l?/

Noun

scapular (plural scapulars)

1. (Christianity) A short cloak worn around the shoulders, adopted as part of the uniform of various religious orders, later often with an embroidered image of a saint. [from 15th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 30:

     A scapular, or friar's coat, for example, was a coveted object to be worn as a preservative against pestilence or the ague […]

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 409:

     She granted the Whitefriars identical powers to the Blackfriars, to bless a part of their friar's habit which draped over their shoulders and was known as the scapular; now laity could wear it and derive spiritual privileges from it.

2. (ornithology) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
3. A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.
4. (Christianity) A devotional object, typically consisting of two rectangular pieces of cloth (often with an embroidered image or text) joined with cloth bands and worn with one piece over the chest and one in the back.

Translations

Adjective

scapular (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the scapula. [from 18th c.]

Related terms

• scaption

Translations

Anagrams

• capsular, crapulas

Romanian

Etymology

From French scapulaire

Adjective

scapular m or n (feminine singular scapular?, masculine plural scapulari, feminine and neuter plural scapulare)

1. scapular

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• cloke (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos-, ultimately imitative.

Doublet of clock.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

cloak (plural cloaks)

1. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
2. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

3. (figuratively)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.

   No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

4. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

Derived terms

• cloak and dagger

Translations

See also

• burnoose, burnous, burnouse
• domino costume

Verb

cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)

1. (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, hide or conceal.
3. (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

   The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

Derived terms

• cloaking device

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