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Definition of Birretta
1. Noun. A stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy.
Definition of Birretta
1. biretta [n -S] - See also: biretta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birretta
Literary usage of Birretta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Order of the Coif by Alexander Pulling (1897)
"The rash man is said avere il cervello sopra la birretta. With the clergy in
England the rashness appears to have been more perceptible in the show of the ..."
2. Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century by Christopher Wordsworth (1874)
"is painted in a mediaeval birretta without'combs'. He died in 1519- Cardinal
Wolsey (Holbein) wears a round cardinal's cap, the top falling in quadrants ..."
3. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"The birretta, a scull-cap, is mentioned in 1298 as the instrument of investiture
of a rector by the Archbishop of Canterbury. ..."
4. Liber Protocollorum M. Cuthberti Simonis Notarii Publici Et Scribi Capituli by Cuthbert Simon, Glasgow (Diocese), Charles Rogers (1875)
"... and by actual delivery of his birretta,* gave him corporal possession thereof.
Done in the house of the said Mr Thomas, within the septs of the hospital ..."
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