crocket

English

Etymology

Middle English croket, from Anglo-Norman croquet (“curl of hair”), from Old Northern French, variant of Old French crochet, diminutive of croc (“hook”), which is also present in English archaically in the architectural sense as crochet, crotchet. Doublet of crochet, croquet, and crotchet.

Noun

crocket (plural crockets)

(architecture) Any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture.

Translations

(architecture) any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture

Czech: krab (cs) m
Dutch: hogel m
French: crochet (fr) m
German: Krabbe (de) f
Middle English: crochet
Polish: żabka (pl) f
Russian: крабб (ru) m (krabb)

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

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