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. |