"Cuculla non facit monachum."
According to H. Leclercq, a common proverb. DACL 2.2 (1910), sv Capuchon, col. 2132. Thus was the gravity only later accorded to what had been originally a garment of the poor and exposed (col. 2128) made light of. Cf. George Fox, and the undoubtedly many other (surely even antecedent) forms of the same basic takedown.
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