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mitre square

British  

noun

  1. a tool with two blades that are at a fixed angle to one another, used to bevel a mitre joint

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Eddowes was killed on Sept. 30, 1888, and her badly mutilated body was found on Whitechapel’s Mitre Square.

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“The Curse Upon Mitre Square” is a novelette inspired by one of the Ripper killings and published by John Francis Brewer as early as October 1888.

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