crocketing

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noun

ornamentation with crockets

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nouncrocketing (countable and uncountable, plural crocketings)

plural crocketings

  1. countableuncountablearchitectureornamentation with crockets

    There is no lace work , no crocketing , no tracery , no construction to speak of

    1869, John Ruskin, Flamboyant Architecture in the Valley of the Somme
    1 more example

    And there, in the centre of the picture, with its carved back scarcely three feet below the soil, is the throne of the ancient king, with the lines of its strange crocketing fresh and unchipped.

    1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 2

Origin

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APA

crocketing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crocketing

MLA

“crocketing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crocketing. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crocketing,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crocketing.

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