Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the shape of a miter: said especially of a form of head-dress worn by women in the middle of the fifteenth century.
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Examples
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With their miter-shaped headwear and their faces fully veiled, when you notice these puppeteers -- and it's part of this theater's craft how soon one almost forgets they're there -- they can suggest penitents in Christian processions.
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The cardinal had donned his miter-shaped helmet at the first sign of the Filippeschi, and Simon could not see his face.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963
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My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke, now here, now there, above the plain, according to the devious curves of the stream, but always fainter and farther away, till I lost it at last behind the miter-shaped hill of the great pagodas.
The Secret Sharer 1911
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My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke, now here, now there, above the plain, according to the devious curves of the stream, but always fainter and farther away, till I lost it at last behind the miter-shaped hill of the great pagoda.
The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad 1890
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In one respect she was treated worse than a felon; for whereas she was on her way to be sentenced by the civil arm, she already bore her judgment inscribed in advance upon a miter-shaped cap which she wore:
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 Mark Twain 1872
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This unusual Roman Catholic weapon is evidently related to the French miter-shaped, multiple-barreled machine-gun of 1870 known as une mitrailleuse.
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