berretta








noun Roman Catholic Church.

  1. biretta.

noun

  1. a stiff square cap with three or four upright projecting pieces extending from the center of the top to the edge, worn by ecclesiastics.

noun

  1. a variant spelling of biretta

noun

  1. RC Church a stiff clerical cap having either three or four upright pieces projecting outwards from the centre to the edge: coloured black for priests, purple for bishops, red for cardinals, and white for certain members of religious orders
n.

square cap worn by Catholic clergy, 1590s, from Italian beretta, from Late Latin birrus, birrum “large cloak with hood;” perhaps of Gaulish origin, or from Greek pyrros “flame-colored, yellow.”

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