berretta
Example Sentences
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The stockings, gloves, skull cap and berretta are of scarlet.
From Rome by Malleson, Hope
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
But the berretta was not allowed to lie in the basket.
From Romola by Eliot, George
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 Zola, Émile
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 Zola, Émile
