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- noun Plural form of
croslet .
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Examples
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Many little ornaments are cut on the inferior roses on the arched work, as croslets, crescents, winged crosses, the old Saxon n, as the emblem of sacred masonry, and the usual characters disposed over religious buildings, J D C Jesus hominis conservator.
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What a life do I lead with my master; nothing but blowing of bellowes, beating of spirits, and scraping of croslets!
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821
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He lies buried in the church of Tuxford, under a flat stone at the east end of the north isle, his portraiture and the arms of Longvilers, viz. a bend between six cross croslets, being inlaid thereon in brass, with this inscription •
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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a chevron ingrailed, _gul_. three croslets pattee of the field; his wife's are _arg_., a fess between two crescents in chief, a lion rampant in base _gul_., which coat I think is borne by the name of
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