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prettygoodwordbarrad (BAR-uhd, BAER-uhd) - (obs.) n., a pointed cap, resembling a dunce-cap, formerly worn in Ireland.
Worn until the 17th century. I'm not easily finding whether the top was a stiff cone or, as seems more likely, flopped over. From Irish bairéad (so spelled after the mid-20th century spelling reform, but it was used in English in the early 19th century), which was from a Romance language source, examples being French béret or Catalan barret or Italian berretto, all being names for a type of short headgear and all being from Medieval Latin birretum, a type of linen hat, diminutive of Late Latin birrus, which was both a hooded cloak and a woollen cap, from Gaulish birrus, short cloak, from Proto-Celtic *birros, short. So originally Celtic, into Latin, then back into Celtic.
---L.
Worn until the 17th century. I'm not easily finding whether the top was a stiff cone or, as seems more likely, flopped over. From Irish bairéad (so spelled after the mid-20th century spelling reform, but it was used in English in the early 19th century), which was from a Romance language source, examples being French béret or Catalan barret or Italian berretto, all being names for a type of short headgear and all being from Medieval Latin birretum, a type of linen hat, diminutive of Late Latin birrus, which was both a hooded cloak and a woollen cap, from Gaulish birrus, short cloak, from Proto-Celtic *birros, short. So originally Celtic, into Latin, then back into Celtic.
---L.
