scapular
- n a feather covering the shoulder of a bird
- n garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit
- a relating to or near the shoulder blade
- At a time when some Roman Catholic nuns wear discreet designer clothes, she is resolutely old-fashioned in her ankle-length brown robe and hair-concealing white scapular.
- Moreover, the order is beset by a fiscal crisis, which is solved when a scapular cross cracks open revealing a ruby as big as the Ritz.
- For his poetry readings Brother Antoninus takes off his white tunic, black scapular and hood, to dress his 6-ft.