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

When I was in Rome several years ago, I went into one of the hottest clergy-clothing stores to look around, and spotted a biretta!

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2018

During Saturday's ceremony at St Peter's Basilica, known as a consistory, the 68-year-old will kneel before the pope and have a scarlet biretta placed on his head and will receive a ring.

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

A long narrow oak table was set against the wall facing the entrance, and upon it were writing materials, a scarlet biretta and a large silver crucifix.

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax