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Meanings of mitre in English
Joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner.
Usage of mitre in English
1
The pointed mitre is lowered; and an angry thrust sends him rolling.
2
His trousers were of sky-blue and the mitre was green on gold.
3
The Ram charges with his forehead, the Empusa butts with her mitre.
4
Sixthly, there was the tiara or mitre which was made of linen.
5
A narrative has begun to be embroidered on the cardinal's magic mitre.
6
That women will get to wear the mitre is in little doubt.
7
The promised cure and the episcopal mitre might go to the devil too.
8
The Archbishop took off his mitre and laid it wearily on the whisker-stand.
9
And they fastened it to the mitre with a violet fillet, as the
10
A fright We came across a male leopard sleeping in a mitre drain.
11
One week had passed, and the work on the mitre advanced.
12
You will see that I have simply reconstituted a Gothic mitre.
13
On his head was a mitre of black felt decorated with silver crescents.
14
A mitre on his head completed the High Priest's holy vestments.
15
The Abbot's mitre once set on his head, he knew rest no more.
16
Provide yourself with a good saw, a hammer, a square, and a mitre-box.
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