ADJECTIVE
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(of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage)
a crocketed spire
How To Use crocketed In A Sentence
- The bishop is represented as in the act of benediction, with a pastoral staff, and in full pontificals; his head is shown as resting on a cushion, and is surmounted by a trefoil arch with a crocketed gable, and a censer-bearing angel on each side. Ely Cathedral
- You see the edges of it, instead of being bossed, or knopped, or crocketed, are mouldings of severest line. Val d'Arno
- The lower portion contains, on each side, a pair of two-light windows, glazed, each divided by a transom, and their heads having an ogee label crocketed and finished with a tall finial also crocketed. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
- St. Guenolé consists of an unfinished square tower, with crocketed pinnacles and a porch of considerable size, under a large mullioned window of the fifteenth century. Brittany & Its Byways
- He leaned back on this support with his face to the tower of the cathedral, now admirably commanded by their station, the high red-brown mass, square and subordinately spired and crocketed, retouched and restored, but charming to his long-sealed eyes and with the first swallows of the year weaving their flight all round it. The Ambassadors
- On my right I could see across the cornfields the two crocketed, rustic spires of Swann's Way
- Beatrice, Sir Otho's wife -- each under a monumental arch, with hanging tracery and a crocketed ogee canopy. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
- I had been long by the waterside at this lower end of the valley, plaiting a little crown of woodbine crocketed with sprigs of heath — to please my grandfather, who likes to see me gay at supper-time. Lorna Doone
- The bishop is represented as in the act of benediction, with a pastoral staff, and in full pontificals; his head is shown as resting on a cushion, and is surmounted by a trefoil arch with a crocketed gable, and a censer-bearing angel on each side. Ely Cathedral
- The arch over the tomb is crocketed, and is enriched with a profusion of ball-flower ornament in the moulding. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire