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cro⋅zier

[kroh-zher]

–noun

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cro·sier or cro·zier (krō'zhər) Pronunciation Key
n.

A staff with a crook or cross at the end, carried by or before an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
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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cro·zier (krō'zhər) Pronunciation Key
n. Variant of crosier.

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crozier

1290, from O.Fr. crocier, from M.L. crociarius "bearer of a cross," from crocia "cross;" also from O.Fr. croisier "one who bears or has to do with a cross." The two words merged in M.E. Technically, "the bearer of a bishop's pastoral staff;" erroneously applied to the staff itself since 1733.

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