croise

plural croises

1. obsoleteA pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross, i.e. a Christian crusader.

   The conquests of the Croises, extending over Palestine and a part of Syria, had been erected into a sovereignty under the name of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

   1760, Edmund Burke, “An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History. […]. Chapter VII. Reign of Richard I.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume X, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, book III, page 491

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   Meanwhile, on three sides of the strip of sea coast, the Moslems gathered their power for the blow that would send the Croises back into the sea from which they had come.

   1924, Harold Lamb, The Making of the Morning Star, Chapter 1