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beretta

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[buh-ret-uh] / bəˈrɛt ə /

noun

  1. biretta.


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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

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.

About his neck he had a white stole, over an arm a snowy maniple, upon his head a priestly beretta.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

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 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