crozier

Definitions


[ˈkrəʊzɪə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a hooked staff carried by a bishop as a symbol of pastoral office

- the curled top of a young fern


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Origin:
Middle English (originally denoting the person who carried a processional cross in front of an archbishop): partly from Old French croisier ‘cross-bearer’, from crois ‘cross’, based on Latin crux; reinforced by Old French crocier ‘bearer of a bishop's crook’, from croce (see crosse)




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