crosslet
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editEtymology
editFrom Middle English crosselet, from Anglo-Norman croiselette; alternatively, cross + -let.
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editcrosslet (plural crosslets)
- (chiefly heraldry) A small cross with crossed arms.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Then Vna gan to aske, if ought he knew, / Or heard abroad of that her champion trew, / That in his armour bare a croslet red.
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