Celtic cross

American  

noun

1. a cross shaped like a Latin cross and having a ring that intersects each segment of the shaft and crossbar at a point equidistant from their junction.

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Celtic cross British  

noun

1. a Latin cross with a broad ring surrounding the point of intersection

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Etymology

Origin of Celtic cross

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Bernadette Martin, daughter of Margaret Keane, and her family, successfully fought for the right to have a Celtic cross bearing the words on her mother's grave at St Giles Church in Exhall.

From BBC • May 28, 2022

During low tide, they can — and should — walk across to see the island’s 14th-century monastery ruins and Celtic cross.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2021

The face of the old Minogue family gravestone, topped by a Celtic cross and the color of a sullen sky, had only so much room.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021

At Sunday’s annual Celtic cross ceremony, Dennis Counihan, grand marshal of the St. Patrick’s Day parade this year, recalled how the early Irish immigrants to Savannah were “fleeing religious, political and social persecution.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 16, 2017

Near the dead tree there w'as a slight mound of earth and a leaning Celtic cross cut from plywood.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole