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
Francis gave the red-and-white-garbed cardinals their square hat, known as a biretta, and their ring of office in the presence of hundreds of other cardinals and bishops during the solemn ceremony inside Christendom's largest church.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2014
The reason the biretta is red is to symbolise each wearer's willingness to give their lives for the Catholic faith.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2014
Zuchetto.—The name give to a skull cap worn by the clergy instead of the biretta; when worn by a Priest the color is black, but that worn by a Bishop is purple.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller
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