berretta

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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

“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

Educated at the College of the Nobles, Pio Boccanera had but once absented himself from Rome, and that when very young, hardly a deacon, but nevertheless appointed oblegate to convey a /berretta/ to Paris.

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

The berretta was formerly presented to him in St. Patrick's Cathedral, April 22, 1875.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various

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