mitten• It is a real hassle, coats and mittens and all the rest in the winter, you know.• The pinched woman in a pinkoverall and bluemittens in the ticket office squinted at our passes and nodded us on.• Roland, her dampmittens dangling from the insides of her stained coat sleeves.• I put my hands back in drymittens and feeling soon returned.• I could almost imagine that he had mittens on ribbonsthreaded through his sleeves.• He had also lost his left mitten.• Foxgloves had opened their mittenflowers.• My teeth were chattering, and the juice from the pear was dripping over my red woolmittens.
Originmitten
(1300-1400)Old Frenchmitaine, probably from mite“mitten”