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zucchetto
[ zoo-ket-oh; Italian tsook-ket-taw ]
noun
- a small, round skullcap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, a priest's being black, a bishop's violet, a cardinal's red, and the pope's white; calotte.
zucchetto
/ zuː-; suː-; tsuːˈkɛtəʊ /
noun
- RC Church a small round skullcap worn by certain ecclesiastics and varying in colour according to the rank of the wearer, the Pope wearing white, cardinals red, bishops violet, and others black
Word History and Origins
Origin of zucchetto1
Word History and Origins
Origin of zucchetto1
Example Sentences
Fiennes’ dome may be closely shorn, but his Cardinal packs plenty of blackmail material underneath his zucchetto.
So when a photo surfaced this weekend, just before the fifth Sunday of Lent, of Pope Francis in a long, white, trendy-looking puffer coat with his traditional pectoral cross and white zucchetto cap, it’s not hard to imagine what happened next: People went wild.
The boy several times pointed to the pope's white skull cap, known as a zucchetto.
Marissa Zucchetto got the shutout.
Wojnowski got excited when he saw the flash of a violet zucchetto — the skullcap worn by a bishop — through a car window and raised his giant sign like a barbell and waved it back and forth with uncanny strength and control.
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