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cro⋅sier

   [kroh-zher]
–noun
1. a ceremonial staff carried by a bishop or an abbot, hooked at one end like a shepherd's crook.
2. Botany. the circinate young frond of a fern.
Also, crozier.

Origin:
1350–1400; short for crosier-staff; ME crosier staff-bearer < MF; r. ME crocer < AF. See crosse, -er 2
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cro·sier or cro·zier     (krō'zhər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A staff with a crook or cross at the end, carried by or before an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
  2. Botany See fiddlehead.

[Middle English croser, from Old French crossier, staff bearer (influenced by croisier, one who bears a cross), from crosse, crosier, of Germanic origin.]
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fid·dle·head     (fĭd'l-hěd')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Nautical A curved, scroll-like ornamentation at the top of a ship's bow that resembles the neck of a violin.
  2. Botany The coiled young frond of any of various ferns, some of which are considered a delicacy when cooked. Also called crosier.
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crosier

noun
a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office 

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Crosier

Cro"sier\ (kr?"zh?r), n. [OE. rocer, croser, croyser, fr. croce crosier, OF. croce, croche, F. crosse, fr. LL. crocea, crocia, from the same German or Celtic sourse as F. croc hook; akin to E. crook.] The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.

Note: The true shape of the crosier was with a hooked or curved top; the archbishop's staff alone bore a cross instead of a crook, and was of exceptional, not of regular form. --Skeat.

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