crosslet
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of crosslet
First recorded in 1350–1400, crosslet is from the Middle English word croslet. See cross, -let
Example Sentences
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The crosslet, cross botonny or cross crosletted, is a cross whose limbs, of even breadth, end as trefoils or treble buds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
His right hand high the crosslet bore, His left the pole-ax grasped, to guidenote And stay his footing in the tide.
From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody
Sir Thomas de Arderne, the son of Ralph, used "a seal, bearing two trumpets, mouthpieces in base, between nine crosses crosslet in fesse, three and three, in pale S. Thome de Arderne."
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
The arms were the three crosses crosslet and a chief or; crest, a double row of ostrich feathers out of a ducal coronet.
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
Second and third, sable, a cross crosslet, ermine.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
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