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

A guest at dinner ventured to dissent from Hearn's opinion that the reverential manner in which people prostrated themselves before the mikado was in no way connected with religious principles.

From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.

In the vessel containing the son, widow, and daughter of Kiyomori, and the young mikado, was a friend of Yoshitsun�, who had agreed upon a signal by which this junk could be known.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles