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mitred brow

English translation: he was wearing a mitre

12:25 Jul 8, 2012
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
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English term or phrase: mitred brow
It seemed a stately banquet of the dead, where lords in skeletons were ranged around a board heaped up with fossil fruits, and flanked with vitreous vases, grinning like empty skulls. There they sat, exchanging rigid courtesies. One's hand was on his stony heart; his other pledged a lord who held a hollow beaker. Another sat, with earnest face beneath a MITRED BROW. He seemed to whisper in the ear of one who listened trustingly. But on the chest of him who wore the miter, an adder lay, close-coiled in flint.
Michael Kislov
Russian Federation
Local time: 23:06
Selected answer:he was wearing a mitre
Explanation:
Above his forehead, he was wearing a mitre. This would suggest that he was a high-level clergyman, perhaps a bishop. The following text confirms this: "But on the chest of him who wore the miter...".
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Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 17:06
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he was wearing a mitre


Explanation:
Above his forehead, he was wearing a mitre. This would suggest that he was a high-level clergyman, perhaps a bishop. The following text confirms this: "But on the chest of him who wore the miter...".

Example sentence(s):
  • MITRE (Lat. mitra, from Gr. ,uLrpa, a band, head-band, head-dress), a liturgical head-dress of the Catholic Church, generally proper to bishops.

    Reference: http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Mitre
Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 17:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 275

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