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a round garment worn on the head with a tight band and a top that is flat, soft, and loose
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Recent Examples of beret
Word to the wise: skip the beret and knee-high boots.
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Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2024
Purchases come with a red beret gift with purchase to complete your look.
—Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
In the past, wearing certain clothing—a beret or white pantsuit, for example—not only symbolized certain ideals but fostered a sense of belonging and solidarity.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 17 Sep. 2024
The singer and actress channeled 1960s fashion trends in a velvet Dior square-neck midi dress with subtle puff sleeves, accessorizing with a netted beret.
—Hannah Malach, WWD, 4 Sep. 2024
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Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2024
Purchases come with a red beret gift with purchase to complete your look.
—Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
In the past, wearing certain clothing—a beret or white pantsuit, for example—not only symbolized certain ideals but fostered a sense of belonging and solidarity.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 17 Sep. 2024
The singer and actress channeled 1960s fashion trends in a velvet Dior square-neck midi dress with subtle puff sleeves, accessorizing with a netted beret.
—Hannah Malach, WWD, 4 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beret
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Nasrallah, who often invoked both God and guns with a distinctive lisp, wore a black turban signifying his descent from the Prophet Muhammad.Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
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The turban is 100% mulberry silk and works wonders on any hair type or texture.Sarah Han, Allure, 23 Sep. 2024
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Couldn’t imagine the owner of San Francisco Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star restaurant Atelier Crenn and one of the most respected toques in the world doing anything less, right?DeMarco Williams, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Stan Michalski is the top toque in the Victorian house kitchen.Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024
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Jackson also paid homage to one of his musical and dancing heroes in it via a white suit and matching fedora that tipped its hat to dancer/actor/singer Fred Astaire.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024
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When Ben turns up to a meeting in a tinfoil hat and fedora (is the tinfoil hat or the fedora more outrageous?Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 July 2024
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Wearing a dodger sombrero in honor of Fernando‘s birthday today is Raymond Solorzano, of South Gate.Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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The curve that represents the energy required for different settings of the Higgs field was always known to resemble a sombrero with an upturned brim.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 22 July 2024
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But the same bees do buzz around her bonnet, over and over.Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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Police say she was last seen wearing a hospital gown, a pink bonnet, orange jogging pants and rainbow Crocs sandals.Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2024
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Atay was born in 1934, near the Black Sea port town of İnebolu—the city where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic, had donned a jaunty Panama hat to give a speech decrying the barbarism of the fez and other Ottoman fashions.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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Louboutin, wearing a fez, brought Natasha Poonawalla in a face-framing Harris Reed creation.Miles Socha, WWD, 6 Oct. 2024
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Many delegations treat the convention like senior week and wear matching outfits—Hawaii’s were obviously the best, but the Wisconsin delegates had their traditional postmodern tricornes shaped like cheese.Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Johnson made this conversation explicit by name-checking or picturing Evans, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, and Richard Avedon—the latter pops up here in a picture on a book cover, which Johnson has topped with a pirate’s tricorne hat.Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
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The female fan had dressed up as Taylor's beau Travis Kelce for the concert in Indianapolis this weekend—complete with a helmet.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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An Irish startup company is working on a helmet with advanced scalp cooling technology to limit hair loss — potentially eliminating one drawback to chemotherapy.Daniel Wine, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Beret.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beret. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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