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

Here is a rude sketch of its use of the crocket in the spandrils of its external tracery, and here are the waves of the Greek sea round the son of Poseidon.

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John

This bursts out, young and irresponsible, in pinnacle, crocket, and gable, in towers like spears, and in the eager lancet windows which peer upwards out of Orsammichele and the Dominican Church.

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

After 1300 the structure of stone buildings began to be overlaid with ornament, the window tracery and vault ribs were of intricate patterns, the pinnacles and spires loaded with crocket and ornament.

From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)