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What is a mozzetta?

What is a mozzetta? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A short cape worn by some Catholic clergy.
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Boys and girls wear a long white tunic with a coloured mozzetta on top to distinguish the various groups.
The mozzetta is the same color as the cassock, and is usually worn only by cardinals and bishops.
In Rome the cardinals wear the mozzetta over the mantelletta, except in their titular churches, when it is worn immediately over the rochet.
The mozzetta of the canons of Klosterneuburg is usually decorated at the neck with violet tassels and cords.
Lastly, from the cappa is probably derived the mozzetta, a short cape with a miniature hood, fastened down the front with buttons.
They have a special cape called a mozzetta which is trimmed with ermine.

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