मुकुट भर में लकीर के साथ एक कठोर टोपी; रोमन कैथोलिक पादरी द्वारा पहना जाता है

Noun:

रोमन कैथोलिक और कुछ एंग्लीकन पादरियों की चौकोर टोपी, बिरेटा,

biretta's Usage Examples:

Braun (Liturgische Gewandung, p. 513) thinks that the symbolism of the cross may have had some influence in fixing and propagating the square shape, and he quotes a decree of the synod of Aix (1585) ordering the J g h clergy to wear a biretta sewn in the form of a cross (biretum in modum crucis consuturn, ut ecclesiasticos homines decet).

It is clear that there is no historical justification for this; for though both college cap and biretta are developed from the same "square cap," the biretta in its actual shape is strictly associated with the postReformation Roman Church, and its actual ceremonial use is of late growth.

The use of the Roman biretta has been introduced by a certain number of the clergy into the Anglican Church.

Only in Spain has the biretta continued to be worn without the raised ridges.

With the extension of its use, too, the custom grew up (c. 1300) of investing clerks with the biretum as the symbol of the transfer of a benefice, a custom which survives, in Roman Catholic countries, in the solemn delivery of the red biretta by the head of the state to newly created cardinals, who afterwards go to Rome to receive the red hat.

At the outset there was little to distinguish the biretum from the pileus or pileolus (skull-cap), a non-liturgical cap worn by dignitaries of the Church under the mitre and even under the biretta.

Though the form of the biretta, devised in the 17th century, is peculiar to the Roman Church, it is but a variant of the original biretum, which developed in various countries into head-coverings of different shapes and significance.

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The introduction of the biretta in the 15th century tended to replace the use of the almuce as a head-covering, and the hood now became smaller, while the cape was enlarged till in some cases it fell below the elbows.

This red biretta is called the zucchetto.

biretta's Meaning':

a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy