barret

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of fitted cap worn by medieval soldiers. historical
    — His head was surmounted with a barret cap, while his hands, limbs, and feet were covered with garments of chamois leather, over which he in general wore the ponderoous and complete armour of his country.
  2. A floppy beret-like cap worn by musketeers. historical
    — the maxillary muscles enormously developed, an infallible sign by which a Gascon may always be detected, even without his barret-cap — and our young man wore a barret-cap, set off with a sort of feather; the eye open and intelligent; the nose hooked, but finely chiselled.
  3. The flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics; a biretta.
    — The priestly leader wears the chasuble and stole, and often the pluvial besides; his head is covered with a barret.

词形变化

barrets plural

词源

From French barrette, Late Latin barretum (“a cap”), from birrus (“hooded cape”). See berretta, and compare biretta.
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