berretta
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The stockings, gloves, skull cap and berretta are of scarlet.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
The royal helmet was then removed, and a handsome burnous was drawn over the king's shoulders, the hood covering the berretta in most grotesque guise.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Émile Zola
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 John Addington Symonds
But the berretta was not allowed to lie in the basket.
From Romola by George Eliot
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