Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of bereted.
He pressed his hand to his beretted brow.
1930, Luise King-Hall, Magdalen King-Hall, “The Castle” (chapter X), in The Well-Meaning Young Man, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 1765 more examples
Béretted boys run in and out the crowd, vociferously selling papers, La Epoca and El Correo Español, or Le Journal Amusant and Le Figaro; […]
1923 February, C. P. Hawkes, “‘Euskal-Jai’”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume LIV, number 320, page 241We see this Gothic spirit of the love of fun glancing down from us from the beretted and smocked figure atop of the Vanderbilt chateau on Fifth Avenue.
1925 December, Mr. and Mrs. G. Glen Gould, “Christmas Humor in Gothic Art”, in International Studio, volume LXXXII, number 343, New York, N.Y.: International Studio, Inc., page one fifty-nineI saw the little quay with the red-sailed fishing smacks moored beside it, the rocky hillside with the tall, square houses, the lounging, rod-sashed, beretted boatmen; […]
1929 October 20, A[lpheus] Hyatt Verrill, “The Bridge of Light”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 2, number 4, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Inc., chapter VII (The Bridge of Light), page 459, column 2Nor would any one of them essay the part of the up-and-doing director, or the alert young assistant, or even a beretted camera man.
1932, Hamilton Thompson, “Escapes and Attempted Getaways at Sing Sing: Prison Guards Must Be Ever On the Alert to Circumvent the Incredible Cunning of Inmates”, in 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (Warner Bros. Pressbook), page four, column 2n the area about the Public Library and on the street in front, hundreds of Lindsay citizens, including beretted and be-medalled veterans, uniformed militia, mothers and relatives of the war dead, representatives of church, military, governmental and municipal groups, and close-packed citizenry were gathered to pay silent tribute to the memory of the glorious dead.
1935 November 12, “Remembrance Day Service Held At The Cenotaph: Lindsay Citizens Turn Out in Large Numbers to Attend Impressive Service Before War Memorial”, in The Lindsay Daily Post, 39th year, number 251, Lindsay, Ont., page one, column 4
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