Medical Definition of Mozzetta
1. A cape, with a small hood; worn by the pope and other dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church. Origin: It. Mozzetta: cf. F. Mosette. Cf. Amice a hood or cape. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mozzetta
Literary usage of Mozzetta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"mozzetta, a short, cape-shaped garment, covering the shoulders and reaching only
to the elbow, with an open front, which may be fastened by means of a row ..."
2. Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church: According to Roman Etiquette by John Abel Nainfa (1909)
"mozzetta is an Italian word derived from mozzo, which means cut short. The mozzetta
is aü ecclesiastical vestment, a short cape, which covers the shoulders, ..."
3. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"At Burgos the canons wear in winter a cope, mozzetta, and a surplice ...
At Ratisbon the choir-tippet, or mozzetta, is of red silk; in France the camail is ..."
4. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"At Burgos the canons wear in winter a cope, mozzetta, and a surplice with ...
At Ratisbon the choir-tippet, or mozzetta, is of red silk; in France the ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"... to help the priest in the ministration,' preaches, he would be vested during
the celebration with ' the vesture appointed for his mini- * mozzetta, ..."
6. Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings by Fogg Art Museum (1919)
"The cardinal's white rochet is mellowed with age; his mozzetta is very dark green,
almost black. His biretta is red. The chair is dark violet red; ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"mozzetta, a short, cape-shaped garment, covering the shoulders and reaching only
to the elbow, with an open front, which may be fastened by means of a row ..."
8. Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church: According to Roman Etiquette by John Abel Nainfa (1909)
"mozzetta is an Italian word derived from mozzo, which means cut short. The mozzetta
is aü ecclesiastical vestment, a short cape, which covers the shoulders, ..."
9. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"At Burgos the canons wear in winter a cope, mozzetta, and a surplice ...
At Ratisbon the choir-tippet, or mozzetta, is of red silk; in France the camail is ..."
10. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"At Burgos the canons wear in winter a cope, mozzetta, and a surplice with ...
At Ratisbon the choir-tippet, or mozzetta, is of red silk; in France the ..."
11. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"... to help the priest in the ministration,' preaches, he would be vested during
the celebration with ' the vesture appointed for his mini- * mozzetta, ..."
12. Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings by Fogg Art Museum (1919)
"The cardinal's white rochet is mellowed with age; his mozzetta is very dark green,
almost black. His biretta is red. The chair is dark violet red; ..."
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