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MITRE
/ˈmaɪtəɹ/
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What does MITRE mean?
noun
- A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many reincarnations, most recently as a tall cap with two points or peaks.
- The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction affected by two bevelled ends or edges; a mitral joint.
- A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
More meanings (7)
noun
- A gusset in sewing, etc.
- A mitre shell
- (historical) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
- (rare) A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.
verb
- To adorn with a mitre.
- To unite at an angle of 45°.
proper noun
- A locality in the Rural City of Horsham and the Shire of West Wimmera, western Victoria, Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmaɪtəɹ/
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The head is not the head of a fly, but a queer, enormous mitre, spreading at the base into two red skull caps, which are the eyes.
‘The Pope and the King together,’ said the Bishop of London, ‘may take the mitre off my head; but, if they do, they will find that I shall put on a soldier’s helmet.
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The mitre and san-benito belonging to Candide were painted with reversed flames and with devils that had neither tails nor claws; but Pangloss's devils had claws and tails and the flames were upright.
The chest was opened; it contained a cope of cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop’s cross, a magnificent crosier,—all the pontifical vestments which had been stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d’Embrun.
Passing through these faculties with baneful haste and a harmful diploma, they lay violent hands upon Moses, and sprinkling about their faces dark waters and thick clouds of the skies, they offer their heads, unhonoured by the snows of age, for the mitre of the pontificate.