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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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Crosiered

Cro"siered\ (-zh?rd), a. Bearing a crosier.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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