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mitre
1[ mahy-ter ]
Mitre
2[ mee-trey; Spanish mee-tre ]
noun
- µþ²¹°ù·³Ù´Ç·±ô´Ç·³¾Ã© [bah, r, -taw-law-, me], 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
mitre
/ ˈ³¾²¹Éª³ÙÉ™ /
noun
- Christianity the liturgical headdress of a bishop or abbot, in most western churches consisting of a tall pointed cleft cap with two bands hanging down at the back
- short for mitre joint
- a bevelled surface of a mitre joint
- (in sewing) a diagonal join where the hems along two sides meet at a corner of the fabric
verb
- to make a mitre joint between (two pieces of material, esp wood)
- to make a mitre in (a fabric)
- to confer a mitre upon
a mitred abbot
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mitre1
Example Sentences
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.
The Vatican released pictures of the body on Sunday, dressed in red papal mourning robes and wearing a gold-trimmed mitre.
“They can arrest us until Jesus comes back,†said Makiti, wearing a bishop’s mitre with a miniature bottle of spirits hanging off it.
Keen on the iconography of pairing a steep mitre with a pair of flashy slip-ons, Benedict celebrated the majesty of clerical garments.
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.
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