Definitions
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- proper noun A white
saltire on a blue background. This pattern was associated with Saint Andrew from medieval times. - noun BDSM An
upright X -shapedframe to which a participant can betied .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length
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Examples
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There was a white flagpole, from which drooped a St. Andrew's Cross.
Resurrection Men Rankin, Ian, 1960- 2002
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St.eatfield had cleverly sketched for me in the afternoon the curious device formed by the tables, which was originally designed by Lord Charlemont himself, the whole giving the exact effect of a St. Andrew's Cross.
The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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Hence the derivation of the term, St. Andrew's Cross.
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These four pale green leaves cross each other after the manner of a St. Andrew's Cross.
Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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"Now let me show you how the flag is made up," and Doctor Joe proceeded to trace St. George's Cross and St. Andrew's Cross, explaining them again as he did so.
Troop One of the Labrador Dillon Wallace 1901
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Another toy which has the soaring flight of the boomerang is made out of two portions of the leaf of the pandanus palm stitched together in the form of a St. Andrew's Cross.
My Tropic Isle 1887
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Anne de Montaut was an acrostic, a mesostic, a St. Andrew's Cross, a lozenge, -- everything, in short, but a sonnet.
De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880
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'Jack' one half of the white St. Andrew's Cross, and in its place putting the red St. Patrick with a narrow white border, to show the colour of the field (fig. 5).
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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When a Boy, you were nearly Hanged; and now at the _mezzo cammin_ of Life you have been on the point of having your Limbs broken on a St. Andrew's Cross.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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The new logo resembles Alabama's state flag, the red St. Andrew's Cross on a white field.
Local News from Tuscaloosa News By Mark Hughes Cobb 2010
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