What is "birettas"

Usage examples of "birettas".

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.