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Stiff square cap
Answer for the clue "Stiff square cap ", 7 letters:
biretta
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Word definitions for biretta in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Berretta \Ber*ret"ta\, n. [It., fr. LL. birrettum, berretum, a cap, dim. of L. birrus, birrum, a cloak to keep off rain, cf. Gr. ? tawny, red: cf. Sp. birreta, Pg. barrete, and E. Barret .] A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
square cap worn by Catholic clergy, 1590s, from Italian beretta , from Late Latin birrus , birrum "large cloak with hood;" perhaps of Gaulish origin, or from Greek pyrros "flame-colored, yellow."
Usage examples of biretta.
From the manner of his a the black cassock that did not button down the front but fastened at the neck and was tied by a sash at the waist, the knee-length black cape and the black biretta he wore-Duncan knew this one was Jesuit.
He had left off the cape and biretta so distinctive to his order, preferring the simplicity of a plain cassock for his work.
Not stopping to change into a clean cassock or add the cape and biretta, he headed out through the side gate in the garden wall.
And all togged out in birettas -- you know, those square caps with pompons on the top, which they pop on and off every time the Holy Name crops up in the service (which I don't like -- Daddy always said only counter-jumpers were always lifting their hats).
The extraordinary commentators who talk through their academic caps or birettas of the humorous and humane mellowly Christian atmosphere of the book, or a happy world where 'all is sweetened by the humanities of love and good fellowship,' and particularly those who talk of a certain 'kindly duchess' who 'entertains the Don' in the second Part these gushing experts have probably been reading some other book or are looking through some rosy gauze at the brutal world of Cervantes' novel.
They wore red birettas and gold and silver pectoral crosses above their breasts.
Now the Holy Ghost does not concern Himself about red or brown birettas 251 or other decorations, nor does He ask whether one is old or young, layman or priest, monk or secular, virgin or married.
His purple robe had trailed in both new and old filth and gave forth a medley of noxious odors, his red gloves were bloodstained, his hood and biretta were snowed with scalings from his blistering head.