crocketing

English

Etymology

From crocket +‎ -ing.

Noun

crocketing (countable and uncountable, plural crocketings)

1. (architecture) ornamentation with crockets
   • 1869, John Ruskin, Flamboyant Architecture in the Valley of the Somme:

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

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

     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.

References

• “crocketing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.