béreted

See also: bereted

English edit

Etymology edit

From béret +‎ -ed.

Adjective edit

béreted (not comparable)

Alternative spelling of bereted.
- 1932 July, Violet Alford, “Ceremonial Dances of the Spanish Basques”, in Carl Engel, editor, The Musical Quarterly, volume XVIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: G. Schirmer (Inc.), page 474:
  I think a still more wonderful sight was the Aurresku at the Conferencia de Estudios Vascos (Conference of Basque Studies) at Vergara in July, 1930, when top-hatted and béreted delegates from all the provinces, and from the Basque Country across the seas, took part.
- 1935, Margaret Widdemer, “Guidance”, in Dorothy Scarborough, editor, Selected Short Stories of Today, New York, N.Y.: Farrar & Rinehart, page 392:
  Her annoyance sharpened to anger when, ending the inspection at her own pew, she found it occupied by a stranger. A slim little girl in a white-collared blue suit, her béreted yellow head bowed on the pew before her, her hands gripping it on either side like a child praying about Santa Claus.
- 1980, Richard Cobb, “V^me arrondissement: quartier du Jardin des Plantes and quartier Mouffetard”, in The Streets of Paris, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 37:
  More of the béreted generation, enjoying the afternoon October sun, under the glass roof of the botanic building, the principal Parisian haven of the elderly économiquement faibles, from the less fashionable areas of the V^me, and, more numerous, from the neighbouring XIII^me.
- 1987, Robert M[cDowell] Parker, Jr., “Côte Rôtie”, in The Wines of the Rhône Valley and Provence, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, part I (The Northern Rhône), page 52:
  The elderly, quiet, extremely shy Etienne Guigal learned his trade while working at Vidal-Fleury, departing after 22 years to form his own firm [Guigal] in 1946. Since the early seventies, his son, the bespectacled, béreted, birdlike Marcel, has taken charge.