Lexicographical Neighbors of Berettas
Literary usage of Berettas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Iris: Studies in Colour and Talks about Flowers by Franz Delitzsch (1889)
"The berettas of our professorial dress are thus genuinely clerical. And our
gowns ?—They have not the form of the old ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1902)
"... in cassocks and berettas ; bishops, in royal purple, with miters and gilded
croziers ; the Archbishop, in his flowing robes of silk ; the Navy ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1884)
"... and meanwhile to remain as cheerful a Easter (una pasqua), since I would not
change my condition for »« the red berettas in the world,—Oh believe me, ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1871)
"... upon postures and costumes—on copes, albs, and berettas— but they were silent
on this occasion. Earl Russell, in speaking of the execution of the ..."
5. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Blue berettas of the Alpine Rifles, crimson pantaloons of the Royal Grenadiers,
blue jackets of the hussars, ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"... who are accommodated with low stools, and holding the superiors' berettas upon
their knees. Ranged along the walls at intervals are the , Swiss Guard, ..."
7. Memories of a Musical Career by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1919)
"One day the berettas invited us to lunch with them. What was our astonishment to
find that they had prepared a pretentious feast for us and invited a number ..."
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