capuchin

noun

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Recent Examples of capuchin They had been created by a capuchin. — Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025 Shawnee has a special permit carved out for Frankie, a capuchin monkey that’s lived in a pet store for nearly two decades. — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025 The connection to nature at Vista Celestial is truly profound, with wildlife waiting for you at the door—I'm not kidding, at one point, a capuchin monkey walked onto our patio to say hello. — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 8 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for capuchin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for capuchin
  1. palatine
  2. mantilla
  3. manta
  4. pelisse
  5. poncho
  6. cape
  7. domino
  8. burnoose
Noun
  • The palatine tonsils are the ones seen at the back of the throat.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
  • During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.
    — Allison Stanger, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Definition of palatine
Noun
  • Some of the women had their hair covered in lace mantillas, an old Catholic custom.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 23 June 2026
  • One of the hallmarks of its origins is a tile work from 1928 by Ernest Batcheler, an American artist of Dutch descent, that portrays a Spanish woman wearing a pink traditional Sevilla dress with frills, a shawl with fringe and a headpiece known as a mantilla.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2026
Definition of mantilla
Noun
  • The resident Manta Trust team has catalogued 150 individual rays and uses the world's first underwater contactless ultrasound scanner to check on pregnant mantas, while the Olive Ridley Project leads turtle research across Laamu Atoll.
    — Jonny Bierman, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Watching a documentary about mantas, reef sharks, or this area is one thing.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Mar. 2026
Definition of manta
Noun
  • Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak); social calls, dinners, and balls; the weather; her mother’s health; and people—often dozens of names.
    — Robert Garnett, WSJ, 14 July 2017
Definition of pelisse
Noun
  • Try looking for a shape that's less poncho-y and more trench-esque—that is, with a collar and separate sleeves.
    — Amber Rambharose, InStyle, 29 June 2026
  • On the touchline, Iraq’s manager Graham Arnold put a poncho on — but changed his mind after just 12 seconds, choosing to remain in his suit.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 June 2026
Definition of poncho
Noun
  • Pamela also wore Oscar de la Renta — a custom mustard brocade dress with a small cape — and Dylan sported a custom groom’s look by Genuardi.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • No category of paraphernalia was more popular than Lionel Messi gear-- from jerseys, to jumbo foam Messi heads to at least one cape depicting the Argentinian player as a saint.
    — Matias Ocner, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
Definition of cape
Noun
  • Days later, Kelce tried and failed to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it at her Kansas City show, the first domino to fall in the couple’s fabled romance.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 2 July 2026
  • That means there may be — no, there likely will be — even one more high-profile domino to fall soon.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
Definition of domino
Noun
  • For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2020
  • On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
Definition of burnoose

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