Definitions for biretta

biretta bi·ret·ta

Spelling: [buh-ret-uh]
IPA: /bəˈrɛt ə/

Biretta is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in biretta (abeirtt).

Definitions for biretta

noun

  1. a stiff square cap with three or four upright projecting pieces extending from the center of the top to the edge, worn by ecclesiastics.

Origin of biretta

1590-1600; Italian berretta, feminine variant of berretto Old Provençal berret Medieval Latin birrettum cap, equivalent to Late Latin birr(us) birrus + -ettum

Examples for biretta

He must also provide the Bishop with a horse, gloves, and a biretta when he rides abroad.

The colouring, with its clear reds of the biretta and the robe, is very successful.

The man in the group behind the bishop, who is in surplice and hood and biretta, is probably the archdeacon.

The old Norma, straight from biretta's Bookshop, had been pretty in plain serge and shabby fur.

On our heads we wore a fascinating "biretta," or cap with a tall feather.

On others he wears a cap of a very peculiar character, which has been compared to a biretta, but is really altogether sui generis.

He sighed, but resigning himself to the inevitable, lifted his biretta as he came up to the door.

He wore a gown and large Geneva bands, like a Presbyterian minister; on his head he had a kind of biretta.

He persisted in wearing in the house a velvet dressing-gown and a biretta, truly an uncommon head-gear.

Father Gray came out of the private chapel of the clergy-house in his cassock and biretta.

Word Value for biretta
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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