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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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In the background, one can make out the scarlet of a Cardinal, whose biretta is tuftless and who wears the scarlet mozzetta over his mantelletta.
There is a short, red fur-lined elbow-length cape called a mozzetta.
You see the white lace of the rochet, and over that the purple mozzetta, trimmed in amaranth.
The mozzetta of the canons of Klosterneuburg is usually decorated at the neck with violet tassels and cords.
In Rome the cardinals wear the mozzetta over the mantelletta, except in their titular churches, when it is worn immediately over the rochet.
The mantelletta was once even more common than the mozzetta.

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