mikado
Example Sentences
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“I’ve been coming here since I was a kid,” said Laura Hureski, stretching out on a bench on the museum lawn in her flowing ivory mikado wedding gown one afternoon in August.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022
The groom’s eyes began welling with tears when the bride, stunning in an strapless, ivory-colored silk mikado Monique Lhuillier dress, began making her way down the aisle to Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love.”
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2018
The Japanese emperor, the mikado, governed by divine right of kings until 1945.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
As a monk he exercised more power than he had done as a mikado, retaining the control of affairs during the reigns of his son and his two grandsons.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
Under orders from the mikado, the shogun appointed the prince of Echizen premier of the empire.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
