Crocket

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Architecture A projecting ornament, usually in the form of a cusp or curling leaf, placed along outer angles of pinnacles and gables.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.
  • n. A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A large roll or lock of hair, characteristic of a manner of dressing the hair common in the fourteenth century. It consisted of a stiff roll, probably made over a piece of stuff, like the “rats” worn by women during the nineteenth century.
  • n. One of the terminal snags on a stag's horn.
  • n. In medieval architecture, a pointed decoration, an ornament most frequently treated as recurved foliage, placed on the angles of the inclined sides of pinnacles, canopies, gables, and other members, and on the outer or convex part of the curve of a pastoral staff or other decorative work. Sometimes crockets were carved in the forms of animals.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    architectural ornament   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    crotchet    ornament   
     
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