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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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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.

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