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Scapular   Listen
noun
Scapular  n.  (Zool.) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scapular" Quotes from Famous Books



... object covered with cabalistic inscriptions. It is worn around the neck, and is supposed to render its owner impervious to knife or bullet. Many are wearing these charms, especially the Tulisanes or outlaws. The Anting-Anting must not be confused, however, with the scapular, a purely religious symbol worn by a great ...
— Philippine Folklore Stories • John Maurice Miller

... of the young men were not known as yet. The sisters at the hospital sent for the priest because the boy brought there wore a scapular and they knew he must be a Catholic. Aside from that nothing ...
— The Alchemist's Secret • Isabel Cecilia Williams

... the communication with sullen dignity; her ample black robe and scapular seeming, as it were, to swell out in yet prouder folds as she listened to the reasons and the emergencies which compelled the Constable of Chester to defer the marriage which he avowed was the dearest wish of his heart, until after his return from the Crusade, for which he was about ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott

... a Carmelite Convent, of the reform of St. Teresa. Every one knows that the Carmelites are in a special manner devoted to Mary, under the title of "Our Lady of Mt. Carmel," and that their congregation is the origin and centre of the Confraternities of the Scapular. There is not a community of women in the Church whose discipline and manner of life is so austere, if we except the "Poor Clares." During all seasons of the year they dress in a heavy coarse habit, ...
— The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois • Anon.



Words linked to "Scapular" :   feather, monastic habit, garment, dorsal scapular vein, scapula, circumflex scapular artery, plume, scapulary, plumage



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