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crozier

[ kroh-zher ]

noun

  1. a variant of crosier.


crozier

/ ˈ°ì°ùəʊÏôə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of crosier
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Lacrosse got its name in the 1600s when a French missionary came upon the Haudenosaunee playing with curved sticks that reminded him of a “crosse,” or crozier, the staff that bishops carry.

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Archbishop Cottrell is due to visit the Minster later to perform the traditional knocking three times on the west door of the cathedral with his crozier, or staff.

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The cathedral doors will be closed before the service and - following tradition - she will bang on the door three times with her crozier.

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Bishops were powerful and the phrase “a belt of the crozier” was still in use.

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“Your Grace, I must protest—” hisses Durufle, but the bishop cuts him off by stamping his crozier to signal the finality of his judgment.

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