berretta

Example Sentences

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“And get the wool from England as we used to do, I should hope,” said an elderly man, in an old-fashioned berretta, who had been silent till now.

From Romola by Eliot, George

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

The berretta was formerly presented to him in St. Patrick's Cathedral, April 22, 1875.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various

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 Webster, Noah

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