bereted

adjective

be·​reted bə-ˈrād 

be-

: wearing a beret

… a photograph of a cute little French girl handing a bottle of what might be champagne to a liberating G.I. under the watchful eye of a bereted Frenchman …

—Julian Barnes, New Yorker, 16 July 2001

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

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