miter
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By 08:30, archbishops and bishops will gather in the Constantine Wing, adjacent to the basilica, wearing liturgical clothes including simple white miter.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
Lyttle fired up internet tutorials, purchased a miter saw and started updating her hallway’s trim.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
The curvy, glossy emerald green cabinet, which Preciado built and painted at Jose Auto Body Shop in Boyle Heights to mimic the look and feel of a lowrider, was modeled after a pope’s miter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022
This is about more than just the work - the important work - of the office or the honor of wearing the bishop’s miter.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
He holds his miter on his lap, exposing a head of fine silvery hair.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
And by 09:00, patriarchs and cardinals will congregate in Saint Sebastian Chapel, in the basilica, wearing white damask miters.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
To close the gaps between the molding miters and the wall, apply a thin line of paintable caulk.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
Once the strip is loose, you might find that it is still caught at the corners; molding is often cut slightly long so the pieces spring into place at the miters, ensuring a tight joint.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020
They had to be able to see the altar, but needed to be positioned to the side so that their miters — the tall ceremonial hats — didn’t block the view for other congregants.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2015
But supposing the Pope kept all his promises and put as many miters on my head as Michelangelo's Jonah sees beneath him in the Sistine Chapel, what would this profit me?
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
The collection was then tucked away into FIDM’s archives until Frank’s colleague posted one of the blazers on Instagram, highlighting the garment’s mesh of “Victorian-style piecework and embroidery with precision mitered tailoring.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
Panel doors are connected by “mortise-and-tenon or mitered joints, and mullions that run vertically between the rails.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2021
Begin a little way away from the mitered corner, not right at it.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020
According to Father Greeley, it is being held together by mitered pinheads.
From Time Magazine Archive
All mitered cuts because, he announced, The Amazing Deck would be octagonal.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
The table is provided with a bevel slitting gauge s′, and cross cut or mitering gauge x′, Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Compositors' Tools and MaterialsBy A. A. Stewart A primer of information about composing sticks, galleys, leads, brass rules, cutting and mitering machines, etc.
Initials, colored, 60; spacing and mitering of, 59.
From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman
A ledge and miter or lipped miter joint is made by rabbeting and mitering the boards to be joined so that the outer portion of the two boards meet in a miter.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The mitering of lace or embroidery is often necessary in making collars and in finishing corners.
From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson
