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mitre

In the Christian church, the headdress worn by bishops, cardinals, and mitred abbots at solemn services. There are mitres of many different shapes, but in the Western church they usually take the form of a tall cleft cap. The mitre worn by the pope is called a tiara.
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Pocket: who was also in the first bloom of youth, and not quite decided whether to mount to the Woolsack, or to roof himself in with a mitre.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
His head, full of graceful majesty, was covered with the episcopal mitre, a headdress which gave it, in addition to the character of sovereignty, that of asceticism and evangelic meditation.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Two on 'em meeting promiscuous must have hitched one another by the mitre pretty often, I should say.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
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