▪ I. † ˈbarret1 Obs. rare—1.
[f. bar n.1 + -et1; cf. F. barrette.]
A little bar.
| 1577 Holinshed Chron. III. 1256/2 The field of ten barrets silver and azure. |
▪ II. barret2
(ˈbærɪt)
Also 9 baret, barrette.
[a. F. barrette (= Pr. barreta, berreta, It. berretta, Sp. birreta): see biretta.]
A little flat cap; esp. the biretta, worn by Roman Catholic clerics.
| 1828 Scott F.M. Perth ii, The steel caps, barrets, and plumes, of squires, archers, and men-at-arms. 1845 E. Holmes Mozart 66 The Cardinal taking his baret from his head. 1870 Disraeli Lothair viii. 32 Waving, as he spoke..his pink barrette. 1880 J. Hawthorne E. Quentin I. 159 A kind of scarlet barret-cap surmounted the heavy black coil of her hair. |
▪ III. barret
var. barrat, Obs., strife, distress.