zucchetto

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If you wore a pileolus, zucchetto, you know, at what part of the Mass would you remove it? "

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  • The archbishop removed his purple zucchetto and lay it next to the rabbi's kippah, said daughter Chavee Lerer. —  JSOnline.com
  • If you bring a new white zucchetto with you at a scheduled meeting with the Pope, a customary gesture of amiability is for His Holiness to trade the one he is wearing for the one you offer. —  Latest Articles
  • Obviously you still see bishops and the Holy Father wearing the zucchetto, but did priests ever wear them frequently?
  • After all one of the significances of a zucchetto is that that person has embarked upon the life of celibacy.
  • If you wore a pileolus, zucchetto, you know, at what part of the Mass would you remove it? " —  My New Curate
 

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  1. Italian, variant of zucchetta, diminutive of zucca, gourd, head; see zucchini.
 

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