Definition of scapular
1a : a long wide band of cloth with an opening for the head worn front and back over the shoulders as part of a monastic habitb : a pair of small cloth squares joined by shoulder tapes and worn under the clothing on the breast and back as a sacramental and often also as a badge of a third order or confraternity
2a : scapulab : one of the feathers covering the base of a bird's wing — see bird illustration
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It’s designed after an escapulário, or scapular in English, a religious garment originally worn by Christian monks.
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Origin and Etymology of scapular
Middle English scapulare, from Late Latin, from Latin scapula shoulder
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Our Lady of the Scapular parish-Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 976 Pope John Paul II Ave.,
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Origin and Etymology of scapular
New Latin scapularis, from scapula
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