Etymology
Origin of mitered
Example Sentences
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The collection was then tucked away into FIDM’s archives until Frank’s colleague posted one of the blazers on Instagram, highlighting the garment’s mesh of “Victorian-style piecework and embroidery with precision mitered tailoring.”
From Los Angeles Times
Panel doors are connected by “mortise-and-tenon or mitered joints, and mullions that run vertically between the rails.”
From New York Times
Begin a little way away from the mitered corner, not right at it.
From Washington Post
Rev. Harris had railed against “Podunk Episcopalians” who feared “mitered mamas” and said she received death threats and was twice forced to change her home phone number.
From Washington Post
Another is adding a mitered edge, where the horizontal counter surface and a matching edge strip are cut at 45-degree angles and joined to give the material a thicker appearance.
From Seattle Times
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