: a visorless usually woolen cap with a tight headband and a soft full flat top
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Queen Camilla wore a red silk crepe dress by Fiona Clare inspired by the Grenadier Guards uniform, paired with a black Philip Treacy beret featuring a white plume and the regiment's cap badge.
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Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
Combined with his garb, which could include berets and glasses, Jaimoe was simply one of the coolest-looking guys in music.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026
In Literature and Painting Playset, 2025, a Cartman-like figure wearing a beret splashes daubs of paint on the screen while a female figure in pilgrim dress delivers a long, disjointed monologue patched together by Kokopeli from Quora posts, art history texts, and other online detritus.
—Theo Belci, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Charlie Chaplin, an Englishman, did in fact wear a beret as an actor spoofing a pretentious director in his 1916 short Behind the Screen.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
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Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
Combined with his garb, which could include berets and glasses, Jaimoe was simply one of the coolest-looking guys in music.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026
In Literature and Painting Playset, 2025, a Cartman-like figure wearing a beret splashes daubs of paint on the screen while a female figure in pilgrim dress delivers a long, disjointed monologue patched together by Kokopeli from Quora posts, art history texts, and other online detritus.
—Theo Belci, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Charlie Chaplin, an Englishman, did in fact wear a beret as an actor spoofing a pretentious director in his 1916 short Behind the Screen.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for beret
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“Beret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beret. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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beret
noun
be·ret
bə-ˈrā 
: a soft flat wool cap without a visor
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