crossette

or croi·sette, cros·ette

[ kraw-set, kro- ]

noun

, Architecture.

1. a projection at a corner of a door or window architrave.

Word History and Origins

Origin of crossette¹

1720–30; < French, diminutive of crosse. See crosse, -ette

Example Sentences

In the midst of the war, in 2001, Barbara Crossette, a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, wrote in the Buddhist magazine Tricycle, “Sarvodaya’s success has been small, and the carnage continues.”

From New York Times

Hearing people hoot lustily at a crossette or chrysanthemum, I assume that they are the same sort who lined up at bear-baiting pits back in the day and, in modern times, watch Howie Mandel reality shows.

From Slate

Along with the mix of chrysanthemum, peony, crossette and salute firework effects spraying across the night sky, Santore’s favorite is the gold-flitter streamer, a Garden State invention that produces a shooting-star effect with a glittering tail.

From Washington Post

Yet, as Crossette points out, so many of the nations complicit in ethnic cleansing – including Chile, Argentina, Rwanda and South Africa – have recognized the importance of addressing past atrocities.

From Time

“Almost as many Sikhs died in a few days in India in 1984 than all the deaths and disappearances in Chile during the 17-year military rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990,” pointed out Barbara Crossette, a former New York Times bureau chief in New Delhi, in a report for World Policy Journal.

From Time