mitre
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Cardinals wear similar clothes, but they can be distinguished by their more ornate damask pattern mitres, which look cream rather than white.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
The leaders, or patriarchs, of Orthodox churches will wear their own style of mitres, a cape called sakkos and an ornate cloth called omophorion, in colours according to their specific traditions.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
Archbishops were often buried with gold-painted mitres – ceremonial headpieces – placed on their coffins.
From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2017
A phalanx of dancing clerics, in mitres and purple-and-gold tunics, suggest a papal conclave performing backup at a Prince concert.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017
The costume of the Popes was gorgeous—cloth of gold with very high jewelled mitres.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
