beretted

English

Adjective

beretted (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of bereted.
   • 1923 February, C. P. Hawkes, “‘Euskal-Jai’”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume LIV, number 320, page 241:

     Béretted boys run in and out the crowd, vociferously selling papers, La Epoca and El Correo Español, or Le Journal Amusant and Le Figaro; […]

   • 1925 December, Mr. and Mrs. G. Glen Gould, “Christmas Humor in Gothic Art”, in International Studio, volume LXXXII, number 343, New York, N.Y.: International Studio, Inc., page one fifty-nine:

     We see this Gothic spirit of the love of fun glancing down from us from the beretted and smocked figure atop of the Vanderbilt chateau on Fifth Avenue.

   • 1929 October 20, A[lpheus] Hyatt Verrill, “The Bridge of Light”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 2, number 4, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Inc., chapter VII (The Bridge of Light), page 459, column 2:

     I saw the little quay with the red-sailed fishing smacks moored beside it, the rocky hillside with the tall, square houses, the lounging, rod-sashed, beretted boatmen; […]

   • 1930, Luise King-Hall, Magdalen King-Hall, “The Castle” (chapter X), in The Well-Meaning Young Man, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 176:

     He pressed his hand to his beretted brow.

   • 1932, Hamilton Thompson, “Escapes and Attempted Getaways at Sing Sing: Prison Guards Must Be Ever On the Alert to Circumvent the Incredible Cunning of Inmates”, in 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (Warner Bros. Pressbook), page four, column 2:

     Nor would any one of them essay the part of the up-and-doing director, or the alert young assistant, or even a beretted camera man.

   • 1935 November 12, “Remembrance Day Service Held At The Cenotaph: Lindsay Citizens Turn Out in Large Numbers to Attend Impressive Service Before War Memorial”, in The Lindsay Daily Post, 39th year, number 251, Lindsay, Ont., page one, column 4:

     n the area about the Public Library and on the street in front, hundreds of Lindsay citizens, including beretted and be-medalled veterans, uniformed militia, mothers and relatives of the war dead, representatives of church, military, governmental and municipal groups, and close-packed citizenry were gathered to pay silent tribute to the memory of the glorious dead.

   • 1963, Daniel Hoffman, “Gestures”, in The City of Satisfactions, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →LCCN, page 31:

     Before train-time they swept across the track / Bare-headed or beretted, in a tide / Bearing loaves / Of pain d’épice, bottles of Nuits-St-George / And Chambertin.