berretta
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
The infusion of mischief was getting stronger, and putting his hand to one of the jewelled pins that fastened her braids to the berretta, he drew it out.
From Romola by Eliot, George
One design—a man throwing his face back, and singing, while he plays a mandoline; with long thick hair and fanciful berretta; behind him a fine line of cypresses and other trees—struck me as singularly lovely.
From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington
“And get the wool from England as we used to do, I should hope,” said an elderly man, in an old-fashioned berretta, who had been silent till now.
From Romola by Eliot, George
He bore his highly respectable name upon the frontal band of his "berretta" alias "corôa," an open-worked affair, very like the old-fashioned jelly-bag night cap.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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