Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short cape, sometimes with a hood, worn over the rochet by the pope or other dignitaries.
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- noun A short
cape worn by someCatholic clergy .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And even wore a white silk mozzetta, which is kind of a short cape.
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Bust of Blessed Pope John XXIII October 28, 1958 — June 3, 1963, wearing camauro, mozzetta and stole.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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I took up the dainty purpled and ermined mozzetta.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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Then I got my camphor and lavender, and laid the fragrant powder between the folds of the mozzetta.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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His Holiness puts on a _mozzetta_ of white (instead of red) damask, and wears it during the whole of Easter week: His shoes also are white.
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs
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It contained the rochet, mozzetta, and biretta of a canon, and was a present from some excellent Franciscan nuns, to whom I had been formerly chaplain, and who were charitable enough not to have forgotten me.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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Similar in form to the almutia is the mozzetta, a cape provided with
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The mozzetta cannot be traced back farther than the fifteenth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The Benedictines, Cistercians, and all the old monastic orders now use the cowl, a great mantle with a good that can be thrown back over the shoulders, as a ceremonial dress for choir; the Franciscans have a smaller hood fixed to their habit; canons wear it on their mozzetta, and bishops and cardinals on the cappa.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The pope's mozzetta is red; that of the cardinals red, rose-coloured, or violet; all others are violet, unless the prelate belongs to a religious order, in which case the colour of the mozzetta and of the religious habit is the same.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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