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crozier

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cro⋅zier

  [kroh-zher]
–noun
crosier.
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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

Related forms:
crosiered, adjective
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cro·sier or cro·zier   (krō'zhər)   
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.]
cro·zier   (krō'zhər)   
n.  Variant of crosier.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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