Definitions

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  • adjective Having a hood or cowl; hooded.
  • adjective zoology, botany Having a hood-like covering or component; hood-shaped.
  • adjective botany Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.

Etymologies

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From Latin cucullatus, from cucullus ‘hood’.

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Examples

  • 'Tis then term-time with your cucullated pieces of formality that have one face to God and another to the devil; and a wretched clutter they make with their sessions, stations, pardons, syntereses, confessions, whippings, anathematizations, and much prayer with as little devotion.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • ’Tis then term-time with your cucullated pieces of formality that have one face to God and another to the devil; and a wretched clutter they make with their sessions, stations, pardons, syntereses, confessions, whippings, anathematizations, and much prayer with as little devotion.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • ’Tis then term-time with your cucullated pieces of formality that have one face to God and another to the devil; and a wretched clutter they make with their sessions, stations, pardons, syntereses, confessions, whippings, anathematizations, and much prayer with as little devotion.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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