mikado
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mikados
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(sometimes initial capital letter) a title of the emperor of Japan.
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(initial capital letter, italics) an operetta (1885) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
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(initial capital letter) a steam locomotive having a two-wheeled front truck, eight driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.
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Etymology
Origin of mikado
1720–30; < Japanese, equivalent to mi- exalted + kado gate, door (of the imperial palace)
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“I’ve been coming here since I was a kid,” said Laura Hureski, stretching out on a bench on the museum lawn in her flowing ivory mikado wedding gown one afternoon in August.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
The groom’s eyes began welling with tears when the bride, stunning in an strapless, ivory-colored silk mikado Monique Lhuillier dress, began making her way down the aisle to Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2018
The Japanese emperor, the mikado, governed by divine right of kings until 1945.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
In the end they decided who should be mikado, ruled the country like monarchs, and became in effect the proprietors of the throne.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Declaring that he would never take up arms against the mikado, he withdrew from the struggle to private life.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Others were deposed, and neither mikados nor shoguns were permitted to reign except as puppets in the hands of the powerful regents of the realm.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
He had been the counsellor of five mikados.
From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa
For centuries afterwards Corea served as the channel through which the arts and thoughts of Asia reached the empire of the mikados.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
From the far-off days of Jimmu, the first emperor, until a century after Buddhism was introduced, the mikados were the actual rulers of their people.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
With these I endow the imperial prince of the Heavenly line of the mikados of the Divine country.
From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa
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