Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
beret . - noun A kind of opal bead of the size of a marble.
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Examples
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He wore the blue berret cap of the Basques on one side, and, enveloped in an ample cloak, seated on the pack-saddle of a mule, and bending over a large brazier, smoked a cigar, and from time to time drank from a leather bottle at his side.
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There is a humble, civil air about the people in the Vallée d'Ossau, which propitiates one: the _berret_ is always taken off as a stranger passes, and a kind salutation uniformly given.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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The dress of the men is a large, heavy, brown stuff cloak, or a long jacket of sheepskin, with the fur outwards; to which, when gaiters of the same are added, there is little difference between them and the animals they tend: a very small _berret_, the cap of the country, covers merely the top of their heads, and is but of little use in sheltering them in rainy weather.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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The laughter of Jeannotte quite abashed the gallant mountaineer, and he replaced his load of butter on his brown _berret_ and disappeared, nor would he for some time afterwards pay us a visit.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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We met a fine old man, whom I took for a shepherd, from his cloak and brown _berret_, and the large
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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To give life to the scene, there are the peasants and market-women on their way to the fair of Tarbes, -- the former wearing the characteristic brown _berret_, and the latter the black or scarlet-peaked hood, which gives quite a clerical air to their costume.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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He wore the blue berret cap of the Basques on one side, and, enveloped in an ample cloak, seated on the pack-saddle of a mule, and bending over a large brazier, smoked a cigar, and from time to time drank from a leather bottle at his side.
Cinq Mars — Complete Alfred de Vigny 1830
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*calls csi* uhum – tayk fingurrprints an dna of bloo berret – yes, is skwished wiff wippee creem – yes tayst lubbleh accordeon to bictim – yes we has cawffee…
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the berret is like one button too many on the iPhone.
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The Hospital of Aubertin, which still exists, is a building of the twelfth century, and was one of many establishments depending on the order of monks hospitalers of Sainte Christine: it served as an asylum to the pilgrims of St. James, and as a resting-place to travellers going and coming to and from Spain, Marie found the church filled with persons of different professions: merchants from Arragon and Catalonia; pilgrims adorned with palms and cockle-shells, emblems of their wandering; shepherds in their red dresses and brown berret-caps; and wayfarers of many sorts, waiting only for the morning to continue their journey in various directions, and offering up their prayers previously to setting out.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
ruzuzu commented on the word berret
"A kind of opal bead of the size of a marble." -- from the Century
April 2, 2014