Also zuchetta, -etto. [Incorrect but usual form for It. zucchetta small gourd, cap, f. zucca gourd, the head.] The skull-cap of an ecclesiastic, differing in color according to rank.
1853. Dale, trans. Baldeschi’s Ceremonial, 3. They should take of their zucchettos in the act of genuflecting.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 18 June, 3/2. Instead of the usual college cap the Chapter will appear in zuchettos.
1901. M. J. F. McCarthy, Five Yrs. in Irel., xx. 257. Leo XIII. … took off the Zuchetta he had been wearing and gave it to Father O’Brien.
