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English
Etymology
From crocket + -ed.
Adjective
crocketed (not comparable)
- (architecture) Having a crocket.
1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:He leaned back on this support with his face to the tower of the cathedral, now admirably commanded by their standpoint, the high red-brown mass, square and subordinately spired and crocketted, retouched and restored, but charming to his long-sealed eyes, and with the first swallows of the year weaving their flight all round it.
1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, pages 82–83:A brief intermission of an Eighteenth Century Barnsdale Forest brought into view the high crocketed tower of Darfield Church on its rugged scarp, beneath whose graveyard gushes out what in the old days was the main water-supply of the village, the Bank Well.
2009 May 17, Christopher Gray, “The Dime Store Tycoon’s Kingdom”, in New York Times:For Woolworth, Gilbert designed a house that was similar, but lacier at the roof line, with intricate copper roof cresting and crocketed chimneys, and elaborately decorated dormers.