berretta

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One design—a man throwing his face back, and singing, while he plays a mandoline; with long thick hair and fanciful berretta; behind him a fine line of cypresses and other trees—struck me as singularly lovely.

From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington

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

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

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

The infusion of mischief was getting stronger, and putting his hand to one of the jewelled pins that fastened her braids to the berretta, he drew it out.

From Romola by Eliot, George