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14 Christianity and/or Biblical vocabulary words

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biretta

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Defn: A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Also spelt berretta, beretta, biretta, etc.
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[...] all I could see on the pavement opposite us were a pair of pale-faced priests wearing birettas and a young washerwoman carrying a basket of laundry on her head.

Gyles Brandreth. Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders, p.61 (2012)
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