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

If it was by order of the mikado half only of a traitor’s property was forfeited to the state.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

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