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mitre or US miter [my-ter] Noun 1. Christianity the headdress of a bishop or abbot, consisting of a tall pointed cleft cap 2. Also: (mitre joint) a corner joint formed by cutting bevels of equal angles at the ends of each piece of material Verb [-tring, -tred] or -tering, -tered to join with a mitre joint [Greek mitra turban]
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Pocket: who was also in the first bloom of youth, and not quite decided whether to mount to the Woolsack, or to roof himself in with a mitre. His head, full of graceful majesty, was covered with the episcopal mitre, a headdress which gave it, in addition to the character of sovereignty, that of asceticism and evangelic meditation. Two on 'em meeting promiscuous must have hitched one another by the mitre pretty often, I should say. |
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