crocket

American  

[krok-it] / ˈkrɒk ɪt /

noun

Architecture.

1. a medieval ornament, usually in the form of a leaf that curves up and away from the supporting surface and returns partially upon itself.

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crocket British  

/ ˈkrɒkɪt /

noun

1. Also called: crochet.  a carved ornament in the form of a curled leaf or cusp, used in Gothic architecture

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Etymology

Origin of crocket

1300–50; Middle English croket hook < Anglo-French, equivalent to croc hook (< Germanic; see crook ¹) + -et -et. See crochet, crotchet

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crocket

When he’s drawing Spanish churches in 1962, for instance, he articulates every last crocket and cranny of the Sagrada Familia spires, every possible zigzag of mortar in his arresting facade to the Barcelona Cathedral.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022

But even if Chartres had been pulverized to dust, it could probably be rebuilt exactly, down to the remotest crocket and mullion.

From Time Magazine Archive

The notable circumstance in this piece of Gothic is its advanced form of crocket, and its prominent foliation, with nothing in the least approaching to floral ornament.

From Val d'Arno by John Ruskin

Now the celestial fire Fingers the sunken spire; Crocket by crocket slowly creepeth down; Brushes the maze of wire, Dewy, electric lyre, And with a silent hymn one moment fills the town.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various

The statues are there, but are modern, of the namby-pamby school, and of the original tomb possibly a crocket and a cusp may remain.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould