: a visorless usually woolen cap with a tight headband and a soft full flat top
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In Literature and Painting Playset, 2025, a Cartman-like figure wearing a beret splashes daubs of paint on the screen while a female figure in pilgrim dress delivers a long, disjointed monologue patched together by Kokopeli from Quora posts, art history texts, and other online detritus.—Theo Belci, Artforum, 2 June 2026 At the New York City premiere of Propeller One-Way Night Coach on Thursday, May 20, the star spoke to PEOPLE about the reaction to his berets.—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026 Charlie Chaplin, an Englishman, did in fact wear a beret as an actor spoofing a pretentious director in his 1916 short Behind the Screen.—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 Then came John Travolta and his charming little berets.—José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 23 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for beret
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French béret, from Gascon berret, from Old Occitan, cap — more at biretta