bishop's mitre
Britishnoun
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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.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
The pectoral fins can be cut away from the head and moulded into a headdress resembling a bishop's mitre.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a perfume of sulphur and nitre As he came at last to a bishop's mitre!
From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
It appeared as if a human head bearing a bishop's mitre, had once been represented on it.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
"Good-bye to the bishop's mitre, to the cardinal's hat; good-bye to the velvet arm-chair in the House of Peers."
From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór
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