- a small, brimless cap
- zucchetto
Origin of calotte
French from Italian calotta from uncertain or unknown; perhaps Classical Greek kalyptra: see calyptracalotte
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calotte
noun
EcclesiasticalA skullcap, especially one worn by Roman Catholic priests.
Origin of calotte
French from Provençal calota or Italian callottaTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural calottes)
- a skullcap worn by Roman Catholic priests
- (archaic) The vertical central area of the crown of a bird's head.
- (architecture) A round cavity or depression, in the form of a cup or cap, lathed and plastered; used to diminish the rise or elevation of a moderate chapel, alcove, etc. which would otherwise be too high for other pieces of the apartment.
- (anatomy) The upper (superi) or lower (inferi) half of the globe of the eye.
Origin
French calotte, diminutive of calot, from écale (“husk, shell (of a nut)”) (due to similar shape and closely fitting the head), from Old French escale, from Old High German scāla (cognate to English scale).
Alternatively, may be related to Greek kalyptra (English calyptra).
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