: a visorless usually woolen cap with a tight headband and a soft full flat top
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Bertinelli, at 65 and perennially adorable in a beret, glasses and comfy striped sweater, is chatting from her bedroom, sipping from a mug and sharing unvarnished insights about love, self-acceptance and moving beyond traumas that might otherwise define us.
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
Atletico will transport their fans to 1930s Birmingham with a Garrison Tavern at the stadium — where the Shelby family meet in the show — a barbershop inspired by that period and flatcap-wearing actors distributing newspapers and berets to fans.
—Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
Newspapers kept running a photograph of an internationally famous heiress toting a machine gun while wearing a saucy beret.
—Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
Kardashian paired her velvet set with sheer stockings, patent leather pumps, a beret, and cat-eye sunglasses.
—Hannah Malach, InStyle, 5 Feb. 2026
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“Beret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beret. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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beret
noun
be·ret
bə-ˈrā 
: a soft flat wool cap without a visor
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