noun, feminine/mi.tɛn/plural: mitaines
fingerless glove; mitten; a protestant church or religious office
Inherited from Old French mite, miste (“playful name for cat”) + -aine. See also minet (“cat”) and Provençal mino (“female cat”), both of expressive origin. Sense 3 is borrowed from English meeting; cf. the sound change in domplaine (“dumpling”).