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
While Nitta was winning this signal victory, others were in arms for the mikado elsewhere, and everywhere the Hojo power went down.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
Under the rule of Yoritomo Japan had two capitals and two governments, the mikado ruling at Kioto, the shogun at Kamakura, the magnificent city which Yoritomo had founded.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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