berretta
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The stockings, gloves, skull cap and berretta are of scarlet.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
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 George Eliot
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 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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