beretta
Americannoun
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One design—a man throwing his face back, and singing, while he plays a mandoline; with long thick hair and fanciful beretta; behind him a fine line of cypress and other trees—struck me as singularly lovely.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
Of its present numbers all, at some period of their lives, held high office under the Republic—they were senators, secretaries of state, ambassadors—and three among that little group of thirty lived to wear the beretta.
From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
"The Giustinian is not a man for our promissione which, verily, fitteth ill with the dignity of our Prince—a man of spirit may well find it hard to assume the beretta under such restrictions!"
From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
The Bleichrode panel had begun life poorly but honestly as a Franciabigio—a portrait of an unknown Florentine lad with a beretta, the type of which Raphael's portrait of himself is the most famous example.
From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett
The figure stood motionless in the shadow of a column, muffled in a long black mantle, a black beretta partially concealing the face.
From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
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