[PW] Re: Alexandre Dumas and Richelieu retry

[Brian Whatcott]

At 08:55 PM 11/17/2006,  John Dyson, you wrote:

>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


...and where does Dumas mention this vegetable, again?

:-)


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!