Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A skullcap worn by certain Roman Catholic clerics, varying in color according to rank.
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- noun small
skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Tailor holds the "zucchetto," or white silk skullcap, that late Pope John Paul II never had the chance to wear, in the window of the tiny shop that served the pontiff.
USATODAY.com - John Paul's longtime tailor pays tribute to the pontiff 2005
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Monsignor Walter Rossi met John Paul in 1997 and brought back his zucchetto or skullcap.
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Monsignor Walter Rossi met John Paul in 1997 and brought back his zucchetto or skullcap.
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Guests wore yarmulkes -- Burke brought his own fuchsia zucchetto worn by bishops -- as a symbol of God's presence, and enjoyed traditional seder fare: matzo, horseradish, apples and wine.
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Guests wore yarmulkes -- Burke brought his own fuchsia zucchetto worn by bishops -- as a symbol of God's presence, and enjoyed traditional seder fare: matzo, horseradish, apples and wine.
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Sometimes ISTM that for any of those things to happen everyone in a red or white zucchetto would have to drop dead simultaneously.
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While the faithful filed into the church for Sunday Mass offered by their archbishop, Philippe Cardinal Barbarin, protestors representing Lesbian and Gay Pride, the Gay and Lesbian Forum, and AIDS Rhône unfurled a banner reading “The condom is life - The Church prohibits it” while chanting, “No to the callote (zucchetto), long live the capote (condom)”.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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He explains the tradition where friends and fellow clergy help buy their friend's first ceremonial vestments or cassock, as well as the pectoral cross, ring, zucchetto skullcap or miter hat.
USATODAY.com - John Paul's longtime tailor pays tribute to the pontiff 2005
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The Boston Globe's fine religion reporter Michael Paulson is blogging from Rome as Archbishop O'Malley gets his scarlet zucchetto.
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The Boston Globe's fine religion reporter Michael Paulson is blogging from Rome as Archbishop O'Malley gets his scarlet zucchetto.
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"Later, with Tomas acting as his dresser, he robed himself in the uniform of his calling: cassock, crimson silk sash, zucchetto, pectoral cross."
- 'The Colour Of Blood', Brian Moore.
January 3, 2008