1 a: a long wide band of cloth with an opening for the head worn front and back over the shoulders as part of a monastic habit b: 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 2 a: scapula b: one of the feathers covering the base of a bird's wing--see bird illustration |