cruces

1. pluralplural of crux

   I attempt to find emotional or rhetorical cruces and to connect these in as graceful a way as I can manage in roughly the same number of lines as Seneca used.

   1992, David R. Slavitt (editor and translator), Seneca: The Tragedies (The Johns Hopkins University Press; →ISBN, 080184309X), volume 1, preface, page xvi

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   Others, trained in the interpretation of linguistic cruces in the Odyssey and Beowulf, find it difficult to detect clarity and certainty in instructions like the following (for the operation of a video cassette recorder)[.]

   1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 110

plural Cruceses

1. A surname from Spanish.

1. pluralplural of Cruce