Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short ecclesiastical vestment or cape which covers the shoulders and can be buttoned over the breast, and to which a hood is attached.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) A cape, with a small hood; -- worn by the pope and other dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Examples
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Around the neck and over the shoulders hangs the cowl, quite separate from the habit, and under it is the shoulder-cape or mozetta, which is round in front and terminates in a point at the back.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Louis Philippe endeavoured to prevent the resumption of the conferences, but the new archbishop, Mgr Affre, was firm, and merely required that the preacher should wear a canon's rochet and mozetta over his Dominican habit.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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For the red cap and violet almutium of the canons he substituted the red mozetta.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Other honorary rights are: to have the processional cross carried immediately before him, to wear the mozetta or short cape, to bless the people, to precede his suffragans, and to occupy the bishop's throne, all this anywhere in the province.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Latin Rite, there are the cappa magna, the amess, the mozetta, the rochet, the biretta; in the Greek Rite the mandyas (mantle) of the bishops, and the biretta-like covering for the head called kamelaukion, which, when worn by monks or bishops, has a veil called exokamelaukion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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(mozetta) and a hood of the same colour complete their costume.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Well, he got them at last; and after a few months his regret was that he had spent nine pounds on the rochet and mozetta. "
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
reesetee commented on the word mozetta
A short cape that covers the shoulders and can be buttoned over the breast, and to which a hood is attached. Worn by the pope and by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and other dignitaries.
October 1, 2008