The biretta is the sign of an ecclesiastical pontifical degree. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-20] Reference
Tip of the biretta to the New Liturgical Movement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
He wore Spanish boots and a velvet biretta, all very gallant. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
He must have been close to seven feet tall with his biretta on. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Tip of the biretta to parishioners Marsha and Monica Brown for the schedule. From Wordnik.com. [Walking toward a cure] Reference
The cassock and biretta are a little clownish, a little fanciful, and yes, are Roman too. From Wordnik.com. [To wear - or not to wear....] Reference
For example, as above, the traditional theology biretta of the Angelicum is totally white. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-20] Reference
But I drew the line at a biretta which cut my temples with its angles, and I called out. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Everyone's biretta was crisp and shiny, the vestments were dazzling and the chant was sublime. From Wordnik.com. [Tridentine Mass at St. Rita's] Reference
Meanwhile Julian the vicar, with his biretta, wants to marry a glamorous worldly widow, Allegra Gray. From Wordnik.com. [Ladies in Distress] Reference
Centavo pieces, purses, shoes, hats The matador stood in this rain with his th biretta raised for an umbrella!. From Wordnik.com. [The Machineries of Joy]
He tucked up his cassock with decision, took his biretta and walking-staff, and said to the three goat-herds. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Here is part of an interview titled "Reorienting the Mass" from ZENIT tip of the biretta to Fr Joshua Whitfield. From Wordnik.com. [Awaiting the coming of the Lord in glory] Reference
He stared at me a second longer before he recovered himself, setting his scholar's biretta straight on his lank hair. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
A tip of the biretta to Mr. Hastrieter who sets me straight on a lot of things - as well as his spy in the back hall. From Wordnik.com. [So I'm wrong...] Reference
He had removed his biretta, and placed it upon the table. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
The Bishop stretched out his hand and took up his biretta. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
(on camera): This was a biretta that he wore as cardinal of Krakow. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2005] Reference
His biretta should be placed upon his head and the tonsure should be renewed. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
"Beautiful!" remarked Bickley, "but why don't you put on your surplice and biretta?". From Wordnik.com. [When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot] Reference
The pileolus (skull cap) and biretta are not, strictly speaking, part of choir dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Sometimes he wore a biretta with a diamond agraffe and a high plume of heron feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812] Reference
"'Doth not behave itself unseemly,'" murmured Symon of Worcester, putting on his biretta. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
They are the biretta, the skullcap, the cross, and the ring of the late Cardinal Bellairs. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn of All] Reference
A tiny biretta is placed upon the child's head and a little cross of white wax in its hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
He sighed, but resigning himself to the inevitable, lifted his biretta as he came up to the door. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century] Reference
Moreover he could scarce put on his biretta, so crowned was his head by the laurels of her praise. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
His black biretta clings like a hangman's cap; under his twitching fingers the beads shiver and click. From Wordnik.com. [Young Adventure, a Book of Poems] Reference
He had donned his cassock, and a shining silver crucifix was on his breast, and his biretta at his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnie-Boy's People] Reference
Then, out from the arbour stepped the Bishop, in his violet cassock and biretta, his breviary in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
He wore a gown and large Geneva bands, like a Presbyterian minister; on his head he had a kind of biretta. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
After this appeared two torches borne by the chanters, then the curé, with stole, surplice, cope, and biretta. From Wordnik.com. [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference
Then came a large man with bold features and dark complexion, wearing a purple robe edged with red and a red biretta. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal City] Reference
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