0 a tall, pointed hat worn by bishops in official ceremonies
1 a joint made by two pieces of wood that have both been cut at an angle of 45° at the joining ends
Nevertheless, copes, mitres and croziers did not disappear.
Almost all fifteenth-century monuments depicted bishops in their eucharistic vestments, including the distinctive mitre, ring and crozier.
In the seventeenth century, mitres, generally retained in heraldry, returned to bishops' heads on their monuments, fleetingly in the 1630s, and substantially between 1660 and 1688.
His effigy, a decaying body bearing a crozier with the head resting upon a mitre, was placed on a low base under a six-poster canopy, detailed in a renaissance idiom.
Actually we did not wear mitres very much and the whole three-week conference was built upon a daily routine of prayer and study.
The petals are thought to be fused together, at least at their bases; they are shaped like a bishop's mitre.
Their empress consorts also received both a mitre and crown on their heads from a cardinal bishop at the same ceremony.
The acanthus frieze is carved with winged angels and bishop's mitre; the segmental pediment, with festoons of flowers.