There are few specimens of Cappa that bear their original labels; most of them are counterfeit "Amatis," and hence the great confusion which has arisen concerning their parentage.
The Violoncellos ofCappa are among the best of the second-class Italian instruments, and are well worthy the attention of the professor and amateur.
All these documents had been obtained by Carrol, either original or copied, from the Fitzgeralds ofCappa Glynn.
The great man looked severely at the priest, and said: "'Where are thy cappa e cotta?
And his maid, who was a bright and clever girl, seeing him so cast down, asked him the cause of his grief, to which he replied that the Bishop had summoned him to appear at the Synod in cappa e cotta.
The shape of the masters' cappa soon became stereotyped and distinctive; then a cappa with sleeves was adopted as the uniform of bachelors.
Stripped of this formal, outer robe, the toga was revealed, the unofficial cassock or under-garment, which now gradually usurped the place of the cappa and became the distinctively academical dress of the Masters of Arts.
The cappa magna has a hood pointed behind and forming a sort of shoulder cape in front, which in the winter months is covered with white ermine.
The soutane of light scarlet cloth has a train; over this is worn the white rochet trimmed with deep lace and over this again the cappa magna a voluminous circular cloak of red watered silk, with a single opening for the head.
Canons of the Roman basilicas wear a cappa magna of purple cloth, but they are not permitted to spread it out, it must be tightly coiled into a long rope and slipped through a loop at the side.
That the strings indicate a state of dependence is confirmed by their being found on the dress of the pope's lay chamberlains called camerieri di cappa e spada; the papal palfrey men and other domestics being also provided with them.
At Salamanca each scholar received annually one cappa lined with sheepskin, and one unlined, and a lined hood.
The young men had just passed through a memorable period of their academic life, and had been invested with the cappa of the bachelor.
It is worn over the rochet by the pope, cardinals, bishops and prelates, the colours varying as in the case of the cappa magna.
In the 12th century it was provided with arms (cappa manicata), but the use of this form was forbidden at choir services and other liturgical functions.
The immantatio was the solemn investiture of the new pope immediately after his election, by means of the cappa rubea, with the papal powers.
The cappa choralis has already been mentioned; it survived as a choir vestment that in winter took the place of the surplice, rochet or almuce.
The right to wear a violet cappa magna is conceded by the popes to the chapters of certain important cathedrals, but the train in this case is worn folded over the left arm or tied under it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cappa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
