[PW] Re: Alexandre Dumas and Richelieu retry

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting Barbara & George Grenier <grenier at earthlink.net>:

> 111 SPELLING QUESTION! In one of his most famous novels, the French writer
> Alexandre Dumas describes Cardinal Richelieu as 'wearing a cap, as
> cardinal's do, similar to a _'. What word, derived from Italian meaning
> 'cap' or 'small dome', completes that quotation and is a name applied to a
> type of skullcap as mainly worn by Roman Catholic clergy? (This word must
> be spelt correctly!)

The word is zucchetta. Zucchetto is a common misspelling. Zucchetta is 
the diminutive form of zucca, also a colloquial word in Italian for the 
head (that kind of dome).

John Dyson