mitred
English
Adjective
mitred (not comparable)
- Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
- 1871, Elizabeth Missing Sewell, European History, page 193:
- Mitred emissaries also passed from Gregory to the Emperor, summoning him to attend the diet within a time by which no one unwafted by wings or steam could have reached the place […]
- 1904, George Hodges, Fountains Abbey, the story of a mediaeval monastery, page 2:
- Their leaves were green when the Abbey rose in splendour, and mitred abbots walked in their shadow.
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- Having a mitre joint.
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