Also 9 baret, barrette. [a. F. barrette (= Pr. barreta, berreta, It. berretta, Sp. birreta): see BIRETTA.] A little flat cap; esp. the BIRETTA, worn by Roman Catholic clerics.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, ii. The steel caps, barrets, and plumes, of squires, archers, and men-at-arms.
1845. E. Holmes, Mozart, 66. The Cardinal taking his baret from his head.
1870. Disraeli, Lothair, viii. 32. Waving, as he spoke … his pink barrette.
1880. J. Hawthorne, E. Quentin, I. 159. A kind of scarlet barret-cap surmounted the heavy black coil of her hair.
