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5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth
originBorrowed from French béret, from Occitan (Gascon) berret (“cap”), from Old Occitan berret, from Medieval Latin birretum, from Late Latin birrus (“large hooded cloak”), from Gaulish birrus (“short cloak”), from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”) (compare Welsh byr, Middle Irish berr). Compare biretta.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0