barret

See also: Barret

English

Etymology

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

Noun

barret (plural barrets)

  1. A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers.
  2. The flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “barret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan barret, ultimately from Late Latin birrus. Compare French béret (“Basque cap”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Central) [bəˈrɛt]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [bəˈrət]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [baˈret]
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Noun

barret m (plural barrets)

  1. hat
    Synonym: capell

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

barret

  1. definite singular of barr
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