# Capuchon > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Capuchon > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Capuchon.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchon > Source revision: 1285038664 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Ceremonial hat worn in Mardi Gras celebrations}} {{for|the raised lip on a funnel or chimney|Capuchon (chimney)}} {{Refimprove|date=October 2008}} thumb|right|350px|Mardi Gras celebrants wearing capuchons A '''capuchon''' is a [cone-shaped](/source/pointed_hat) ceremonial hat worn during the [Mardi Gras](/source/Mardi_Gras) celebration in the [Cajun](/source/Cajun) areas of southern [Louisiana](/source/Louisiana), known as the ''[Courir de Mardi Gras](/source/Courir_de_Mardi_Gras)''.{{cite book|editor1-first=Albert|editor1-last=Valdman|editor2-first=Kevin|editor2-last=Rottet|editor3-first=Barry|editor3-last=Ancelet|editor3-link=Barry Jean Ancelet|editor4-first=Thomas|editor4-last=Klingler|editor5-first=Amanda|editor5-last=LaFleur|editor6-first=Tamara|editor6-last=Lindner|editor7-first=Michael|editor7-last=Picone|editor8-first=Dominique|editor8-last=Ryon|title=Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities|edition=1|date=November 12, 2009|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-403-4|page=107}} The rural celebration is based on early begging rituals, similar to those still celebrated by [mummer](/source/mummer)s, [wassailer](/source/Wassailing)s and celebrants of [Halloween](/source/Halloween). As Mardi Gras is the celebration of the final day before [Lent](/source/Lent), celebrants drink and eat heavily, but dress in costume, ostensibly to protect their identities. Many of the traditional costumes are derivatives of the costumes worn in early rural [France](/source/France) during the same celebration. The costumes directly mock the nobility, the clergy and the educated; celebrants wear [miter](/source/mitre) hats, [mortarboard](/source/mortarboard)s and capuchons, which were initially designed to mock the [tall pointy hats](/source/hennin) worn by noble women. These hats are still worn, primarily by men. The name "capuchon" comes from the same root word, "cappa" in Latin, meaning a cape or hood, that gives us "cap", "cape", "cope", "chapeau" in French, [Capuchin monkey](/source/Capuchin_monkey)s, [Capuchin friars](/source/Capuchin_friars), [cappuccino](/source/cappuccino)s and [baseball cap](/source/baseball_cap)s. [Chaperon (headgear)](/source/Chaperon_(headgear)) describes the development of the word. The hats are vibrantly decorated to match (or intentionally mis-match) the colorful Mardi Gras costumes that they accompany. They are often worn with a mask. The capuchons worn by Mardi Gras celebrants are unrelated to the pointed hoods worn by the [Ku Klux Klan](/source/Ku_Klux_Klan), and predate the hoods by several hundred years. ==See also== *[Pointed hat](/source/Pointed_hat) *[List of hat styles](/source/List_of_hat_styles) *[List of headgear](/source/List_of_headgear) ==References== {{reflist}} capuchon Category:Cajun culture Category:Pointed hats --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Capuchon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchon) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchon?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.