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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mitten
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Foxgloves had opened their mitten flowers.
▪ He had also lost his left mitten.
▪ I could almost imagine that he had mittens on ribbons threaded through his sleeves.
▪ I put my hands back in dry mittens and feeling soon returned.
▪ It is a real hassle, coats and mittens and all the rest in the winter, you know.
▪ My teeth were chattering, and the juice from the pear was dripping over my red wool mittens.
▪ Roland, her damp mittens dangling from the insides of her stained coat sleeves.
▪ The pinched woman in a pink overall and blue mittens in the ticket office squinted at our passes and nodded us on.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mitten

Mitten \Mit"ten\, n. [OE. mitaine, meteyn, F. mitaine, perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. miotog, Gael. miotag, Ir. & Gael. mutan a muff, a thick glove. Cf. Mitt.]

  1. A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
    --Chaucer.

  2. A cover for the wrist and forearm.

    To give the mitten to, to dismiss as a lover; to reject the suit of. [Colloq.]

    To handle without mittens, to treat roughly; to handle without gloves. [Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mitten

late 14c., from Old French mitaine "mitten, half-glove" (12c.), from Old French mite "mitten," and from Medieval Latin mitta, which are perhaps from Middle High German mittemo, Old High German mittamo "middle, midmost" (reflecting notion of "half-glove"), or from Vulgar Latin *medietana "divided in the middle," from Latin medius (see medial (adj.)).

Wiktionary
mitten

n. A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers.

WordNet
mitten

n. glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together [syn: mittens]

Wikipedia
Mitten (disambiguation)

A mitten is a glove without individual finger openings.

It can also refer to:

  • The Mitten, a mountain in Antarctica
  • West and East Mitten Buttes, a geologic formation in Monument Valley
  • Lower Peninsula of Michigan, nicknamed "the Mitten"
  • Mitt Romney (born 1947), American politician nicknamed "Mittens"
  • Chinese mitten crab, a species of crab native to Eastern Asia
  • Polydactyl cat, also known as "mitten cat"

Usage examples of "mitten".

And inside the trunk are mail leggings, cowl, mittens, boots, and a leather aketon for protection underneath.

Then, with a brushed cotton cloth wrapped around one hand like a mitten, she mops and dabs him dry.

Susannah been but a means of getting those Obs into the Peach family, and the eager Mittens of Sam Peach, Sr.

Within a short time he pulled on his mittens and cloak, and then, having thanked Olla, Tyron set out with his companion in the predawn darkness.

His hands were encased in heated mittens, his face protected from the winds by the furred edge of his hood, a thick wool scarf, and a pair of polarized goggles.

She also begged to thank Cousin Margaret for the doll so kindly sent Roselle and for the red mittens sent to Paul.

When I left home I was wrapped in a quilted down-filled coat, cashmere Burberry scarf, fleece-lined boots, and heavy-duty shearling mittens.

The Khaa stretched out an arm: The arm just peeled away from its torso, its hand a thumbless black mitten.

The sexual acts in which Richard Hudson engaged each of these three women involved a high degree of probability that they would result in their deaths, and he committed those acts for a base, antisocial purpose and with wanton disregard for the lives of Victoria Mitten, Jane Sorensen, and Marian Browning.

Meyers and Bettles had raised their ear flaps, while Malemute Kid had even taken off his mittens.

And then Pettit came to me bearing an invisible mitten, with the fortitude of a dish-rag.

Taking her scarlet cloak and mittens from a hook in the passageway, Shahi hurried outside to find her mother waiting for her in the entry courtyard.

It used to be a charity that gave away coats and mittens to underserved families every Christmas.

One was full of dirty socks and underwear, two contained used booties that could be reused after they were washed, one held mittens and spare face mask.

Lillie undid her cape and placed it on the coatrack, along with her hat and mittens.