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Friday 23 October 2020

Word To Use Today: zucchetto.

 Once you know that the skull cap worn by various dignitaries of the Roman Catholic church (and colour-coded according to rank) is properly called a zucchetto, then I'm afraid it does make it slightly harder to take some important people entirely seriously.

Word To Use Today: zucchetto. This is basically the same word as zucchini (these are the vegetables we in Britain call courgettes). The word zucchetto comes from the Italian zucca, which means gourd or head, from the Latin cucutia, and probably before that from cucurbita.

photo by Chiswick Chap 



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