Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small cross.
- noun A crucible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small cross.
- noun obsolete A crucible.
- adjective (Her.) Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. See
cross-crosslet .
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- noun A small
cross .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If a conjecture may be hazarded, I would suggest that the coat was a modification of the ancient arms of Batishull: a crosslet in saltier, between four owls.
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There is no gold about the boy, but the crosslet of his sword;
Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906
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The "cross crosslet" is formed of four Latin or Passion crosses placed foot to foot.
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His Mark is a triangle of which the two upright sides are prolonged with a crosslet; in the centre a star, and on either side the gothic letters T H, the whole being on a very small shield hanging from a broken stump.
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The arms were the three crosses crosslet and a chief or; crest, a double row of ostrich feathers out of a ducal coronet.
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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Museum, and bears three crosses crosslet and a chief Arderne.
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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British Museum, bearing a shield [534] "Ermine, on a bend three crosses crosslet, depending from a tree of three small branches," who might have been the same person.
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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On the side nearest the rock is a splayed opening ending outwardly in a crosslet large enough for three or four men to use at the same time.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Only the eldest sons bore the Chevron chequy, the rest of the family bore the Beauchamp crosses crosslet.
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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Sir Thomas Arden and Sir John bore as arms the three crosses crosslet, and the chief or, the same as the legitimate family.
Shakespeare's Family 1885
chained_bear commented on the word crosslet
In castle architecture, a loophole arranged in the form of a cross. Also crosslit.
August 24, 2008