Lastly, from the cappa is probably derived the mozzetta, a short cape with a miniature hood, fastened down the front with buttons. |
That – along with the ermine-trimmed mozzetta and the gold pectoral cross – had been left behind. |
The mantelletta was once even more common than the mozzetta. |
You see the white lace of the rochet, and over that the purple mozzetta, trimmed in amaranth. |
They have a special cape called a mozzetta which is trimmed with ermine. |
In Rome the cardinals wear the mozzetta over the mantelletta, except in their titular churches, when it is worn immediately over the rochet. |