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zucchetto

[ zoo-ket-oh; Italian tsook-ket-taw ]

noun

plural zucchettos, Italian zucchetti [tsook-, ket, -tee].
  1. 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

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of zucchetto1

1850–55; < Italian, variant of zucchetta, diminutive of zucca gourd, head, perhaps < pre-Indo-European *tjukka gourd
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Word History and Origins

Origin of zucchetto1

C19: from Italian, from zucca a gourd, head, from Late Latin cucutia gourd, probably from Latin cucurbita
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Example Sentences

Fiennes’ dome may be closely shorn, but his Cardinal packs plenty of blackmail material underneath his zucchetto.

From Salon

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.

From Reuters

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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