( <美> miter)
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- a tall headdress worn by bishops and senior abbots as a symbol of office, tapering to a point at front and back with a deep cleft between主教冠（主教和高级男修道士长戴的高帽冠, 为职务标志, 前后顶尖, 中间深凹）。
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- （亦作mitre joint）a joint made between two pieces of wood or other material at an angle of 90°, such that the line of junction bisects this angle（木件）斜（拼）接。
2.1
- a diagonal seam of two pieces of fabric that meet at a corner joining（纺织品）斜接面, 斜接缝。
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- （亦作mitre shell）a mollusc of warm seas which has a sharply pointed shell with a narrow aperture, supposedly resembling a bishop's mitre笔螺。
3.1
- Family Mitridae, class Gastropoda: Mitra and other genera.笔螺科, 腹足纲：笔螺属及其他属。
词源
late Middle English: from Old French, via Latin from Greek mitra 'belt or turban'.