biretta

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A photograph showed Bishop Joyce, in cassock and biretta, standing in front of a Christmas tree with children on each side.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019

Francis gave the red-and-white-garbed cardinals their square hat, known as a biretta, and their ring of office in the presence of hundreds of other cardinals and bishops during the solemn ceremony inside Christendom's largest church.

From Reuters • Feb. 22, 2014

The reason the biretta is red is to symbolise each wearer's willingness to give their lives for the Catholic faith.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2014

Next is the collapsible biretta, a taller, square-ridged cap with three peaks on top.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2013

Zuchetto.—The name give to a skull cap worn by the clergy instead of the biretta; when worn by a Priest the color is black, but that worn by a Bishop is purple.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James