berretta
Example Sentences
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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 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
A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
