- a variation of miter.
mitre
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After the service, Francis's body — dressed in a red chasuble and a damask and golden papal mitre — will be transported to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome for burial.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025
But as is the way of such men, the more doubt he has about the popular kids, the more certainty he has in his suitability to assume the mantle and mitre of Il Papa.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
The church replaced it after the American Revolution with what is called a bishop’s mitre, which represented the shift from the Church of England to the Episcopal Church.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
Later, Pope Paul VI lowered the height of the traditional mitre cap, and discouraged prelates from wearing red shoes and silver buckles.
From Slate ● May 3, 2018
She’d put out our best tumblers for drinks and folded up paper serviettes into them so that each one stood up over the glass rim like a mitre, our school emblem.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Garrett said the red-crowned amazon is one of several exotic birds that have found a home in Southern California, along with the lilac-crowned parrots of western Mexico and the mitred parakeets of South America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
Pointing to the first few birds spotted during the Temple City field trip — a pair of mitred parakeets alighting in a sycamore tree — Husic suggested another explanation for a perceived noise increase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
Others with roughly 1,000 members or more include the mitred parakeet, yellow-chevroned parakeet and the lilac-crowned Amazon parrot.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2017
Primates and Cardinals, Archbishops and mitred Abbots in scarlet and purple robes sat and deliberated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every room and court was filled with a crowd of cowled monks and mitred abbots.
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
Tuck in all at once the foot and lower corners, mitring the corners as you did those of the lower sheet.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
