Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A swastika.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A peculiarly formed cross, each arm of which has a continuation at right angles, all in the same direction, used as a symbol or as an ornament since prehistoric times from China to western Africa.
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- noun A
swastika , especially one with the arms bent in an anticlockwise direction.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The crux ansata, or cross with a handle, and the crux gammata, or "fylfot", are much more ancient than Christianity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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His garments were about like ordinary street clothes, belted tunic and baggy trousers, but a certain precision in their cut-as well as blue-and-gold stripes and the double fylfot embroidered on the sleeves-indicated they were a livery.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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The fylfot is frequently found in the Greek Church on the vestments of the clergy.
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The Greek fret or key pattern, with which all are familiar, is a decorative development of the fylfot.
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One of the most singular, as well as most ancient, of the many forms and modifications of the cross is the "fylfot."
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And now a luminous tuft shot into his bedroom and threw a figure on the wall, a strange figure, something like a fylfot, and it came from the sitting-room.
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales August Strindberg 1880
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Historical Catalogue, William Anderson, pp. 13-94.] [Footnote 29: See fylfot in Century Dictionary.] [Footnote 30: The word _vagra_, diamond, is a constituent in scores of names of sutras, especially those whose contents are metaphysical in their nature.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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XXIV.fig. 2), being the swastika or fylfot, so well known as an Aryan symbol, and which not only occurs on some of the antiquities discovered by Dr. Schhemann at Troy, and Mycenae, but is also still used as a symbol by the Buddhists.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
seanahan commented on the word fylfot
This is another word for Swastika, which is an ancient symbol, particularly in Hinduism. The Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika has a number of alternate names for it.
October 28, 2007
jaime_d commented on the word fylfot
From "Haile Selassie Funeral Train" by Guy Davenport.
January 19, 2010