crossette

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French crossette, diminutive of crosse. See crosier.

Noun

crossette (plural crossettes)

  1. (architecture) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window.
  2. The shoulder of a joggled keystone.
  3. A kind of firework that produces a starburst in four directions, resembling a cross.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crossette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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