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CROSLET

Volume 3 · 53 words · 1778 Edition

in heraldry, is when a cross is crooked again at a small distance from each of the ends. Upton says it is not to often borne by itself in arms, as other crosses are, but often in diminutives, that is, in small crozlets scattered about the field. See Heraldry, p. 26, exampl. 10.