croisee

I remember to have learned from this courteous old servant, the origin of the common term croisee, which is as often used in large houses as that of fenetre.

A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836

The several compartments in the casements came from the shape of the cross, and the term croisee from croix.

A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836

(pronounced kwaysay), a bustling junction marked by the Scotiabank clock tower, which was named when French Creole was the main local vernacular - "croisee" translates as

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Now playing: Kenneth Gilbert - Air vif pour Zephire et la Rose (piece croisee)

Just too cute!! | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006

I wondered in what part of the building was situated her apartment; and a single light, shining through the persiennes of one croisee, seemed to direct me to it.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

From the croisee in the centre, where the crowd is most dense, one sees the whole almost better than

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

The four "enormous" columns of the croisee, carry, as Viollet-le-Duc says, the "enormous octagonal tower," -- like Saint Christopher supporting the Christ - child, before the image of the Virgin, in her honour.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

Standing under the central croisee, you can see all three roses by simply turning your head.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

The true height of Chartres, at the croisee of nave and transept, is as near as possible one hundred and twenty feet (36.55 metres).

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

Still, the overmastering strength of the eleventh century is stamped on a great scale here, not only in the four spans of the nave, and in the transepts, but chiefly in the triumphal columns of the croisee.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878