barrets

Noun

barret (plural barrets)

1. (historical) A kind of fitted cap worn by medieval soldiers.
   • 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.1832, Walter Scott, Count Robert of Paris, page 206
2. (historical) A floppy beret-like cap worn by musketeers.
   • 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.1878, Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, page 1
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.1889, John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, page 613

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