berretta

Example Sentences

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And, according to antique usage, it was here that the /berretta/, the red cap, was placed, on a credence, below a large crucifix of ivory and ebony.

From The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 by Zola, Émile

The stockings, gloves, skull cap and berretta are of scarlet.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

“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

But the berretta was not allowed to lie in the basket.

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