mitre
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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
Keen on the iconography of pairing a steep mitre with a pair of flashy slip-ons, Benedict celebrated the majesty of clerical garments.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019
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
It is like a squashed-up X and over it is a bishop’s hat, which is called a mitre.
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
Coolly poised to repel the attack, the British forces moved forward, Hessian grenadiers in fearsome mitred helmets, the Scottish Black Watch regiment resplendent in tartan kilts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The casqued and mitred gentry are the English captains and the prelates.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
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
