beretta
Americannoun
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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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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 Frank Jewett Mather
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 Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
"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 Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
He smiled and nodded a greeting; then, with his eyes half closed, his lips moving in prayer, his beretta well over his forehead, he followed his surpliced bodyguard, walking in the direction of the sea.
From Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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