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A square cap, originally with four ridges across the top, surmounted by a tuft, worn by Roman Catholicclergy (and by some in the Anglican Church). A three-sided biretta is worn by Roman Catholic clergy for liturgical celebrations.
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
1964, Jan Morris, Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:
To right and left, embedded in their stalls, the other canons sit reverently engrossed, birettas hung on the walls behind; […]
