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
He was clad in a miter, red vestments and simple black shoes, but not the silver staff with crucifix or pallium, the vestment symbolizing papal authority.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
He was dressed in a miter, the headgear of a bishop, and a red cloak-like vestment.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
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
“For the miter saw. I brought a generator, too, so we can get power to these tools. Given any thought yet to electricity for your house?”
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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
After the miters are all cut and the location of the squares, found, they are marked so that pieces of red burlap may be placed over the green before the slats are fastened permanently.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
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
After a service of nearly three hours, the solemn congregation burst into applause as the resplendently robed and mitered clergymen were declared to be bishops.
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
Fit these base pieces to place, mitering the joints.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
The mitering of lace or embroidery is often necessary in making collars and in finishing corners.
From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz
The rabbets are cut out with a rabbeting-plane before mitering and assembling.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
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 Noyes, William
Initials, colored, 60; spacing and mitering of, 59.
From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman
