crosslet
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English crosselet, from Anglo-Norman croiselette; alternatively, cross + -let.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
crosslet (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.