mitre

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In his mitre was a thin plate of gold on which was written, 'Holiness to the Lord.'

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  1. noun Chiefly British Variant of miter.

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  • And one in the likeness of a Bishop with a cope and mitre, and others like the Parson and the Clerk. —  Eternity Ring - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 13: 1948
  • In the mighty contest between the crown and the mitre, the Marquis Azo and the Countess Matilda led the powers of Italy. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gibbon, by James Cotter Morison
  • It was evidently a mitre, and nothing else! —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
  • You may dress him in lawn sleeves and a mitre, and make pagan genuflections before his throne, but he is only a worm for all that What about his wife?' —  The Bishop's Secret
  • The head of the Bëorhmynster monastery was a mitred abbot And Bishop Pendle is a mitred bishop,' interposed the fair Daisy, to show the quickness of her understanding, and thereby displaying her ignorance All bishops are mitred,' said Dr Alder, testily; 'a crozier and a mitre are the symbols of their high office. —  The Bishop's Secret
 

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