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biretta
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. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.
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."
Wiktionary
n. A square cap, originally with four ridges across the top, surmounted by a tuft, worn by Roman Catholic clergy (and by some in the Anglican Church). A three-sided biretta is worn by Roman Catholic clergy for liturgy celebrations.
WordNet
n. a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy
Wikipedia
The biretta is a square cap with three or four peaks or horns, sometimes surmounted by a tuft. Traditionally the three peaked biretta is worn by Roman Catholic clergy and some Anglican and Lutheran clergy. The four peaked biretta is worn as academic dress by those holding a doctoral degree from a pontifical faculty or pontifical university. Occasionally the biretta is worn by advocates in law courts, for instance the advocates in the Channel Islands.
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.