A stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy.
1 The Druids had put aside the oak leaves and put on the biretta .
2 He had removed his biretta , and placed it upon the table.
3 The Bishop stretched out his hand and took up his biretta .
4 Then he took up his biretta and went to the lift.
5 You will never walk with the biretta on your head.
6 Father Sergius straightened his mantle, put on his biretta , and went circumspectly through the crowd.
7 I showed in the priest, still brushing the first snowfall of winter off his biretta .
8 His cardinal's biretta seemed to swell with pride on his little, white and shining head.
9 They are the biretta , the skullcap, the cross, and the ring of the late Cardinal Bellairs.
10 He imagined that on the strength of my credit he could procure the biretta for himself.
11 Sometimes he wore a biretta with a diamond agraffe and a high plume of heron feathers.
12 Lastly, he puts on his cap or biretta .
13 He sighed, but resigning himself to the inevitable, lifted his biretta as he came up to the door.
14 The Bishop put on his biretta .
15 He put on his biretta again.
16 After this appeared two torches borne by the chanters, then the curé, with stole, surplice, cope, and biretta .
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