Definitions for birettas

birettas bi·ret·ta

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

Birettas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 421 anagrams from letters in birettas (abeirstt).

Definitions for birettas

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 birettas

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 birettas

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for birettas
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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