mikado
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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
This imperial Amazon was the wife of the mikado Chinai, who in 193 A.D. set out at the head of his army for Kiushiu, a rebellion having broken out at Kumaso, in that island.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
I have put down the villains that distracted the country, and I intend to bring peace upon the land and restore the power of the mikado.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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