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  • adjective Wearing a beret.

Etymologies

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beret +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • I was surprised to discover that one of the maroon-bereted

    RON BLECKER 2010

  • By some amazing coincidence, five ear-piercing Mirage jets just happened to be flying overhead, spewing out the five colors of the Egyptian flag, when four blue-bereted soldiers leapt from a truck pulling a piece of artillery.

    Gary S. Chafetz: Mubarak's Turn Gary S. Chafetz 2011

  • By some amazing coincidence, five ear-piercing Mirage jets just happened to be flying overhead, spewing out the five colors of the Egyptian flag, when four blue-bereted soldiers leapt from a truck pulling a piece of artillery.

    Gary S. Chafetz: Mubarak's Turn Gary S. Chafetz 2011

  • I was surprised to discover that one of the maroon-bereted Marines escorting Dr. Rodney Mckay in The Siege –

    RON BLECKER 2010

  • That's how silly the “Silly Season's” getting lately with talk of Manchurian Candidates and other candidates being deemed one minute as a GOP enabler, and the next as a bereted, leather-jacketed second coming of Bobby Seale and Fred Hampton.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Would it ring first, or would it just slide in slyly, too quick and slippery to be denied; or, would sex barge in forcibly, red-faced and green-bereted, pushing all other things aside?

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • While we discussed "the troubles," a British Army armored vehicle rumbled by us, braked abruptly, and disgorged red-bereted members of the elite Parachute Regiment.

    John R. MacArthur: Of the IRA and the Afghan War 2010

  • While we discussed "the troubles," a British Army armored vehicle rumbled by us, braked abruptly, and disgorged red-bereted members of the elite Parachute Regiment.

    John R. MacArthur: Of the IRA and the Afghan War 2010

  • That's how silly the “Silly Season's” getting lately with talk of Manchurian Candidates and other candidates being deemed one minute as a GOP enabler, and the next as a bereted, leather-jacketed second coming of Bobby Seale and Fred Hampton.

    Musical Moments That Change Your Life—The Remix 2008

  • This was ostensibly a reprise of a famous phrase when, as a red-bereted paratrooper in 1992, he acknowledged on TV he had failed to seize power in a coup attempt.

    Livingstone's Chum Thwarted in Quest for Dictatorship 2007

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