mitre-head
mitre-head. Type of ogee-headed bulbous top of a pinnacle or turret of late Perpendicular Tudor Gothic, as in Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey, London. The name is derived from its resemblance to a Bishop's head-dress.
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