croise

From French crois (“crusader”).

• IPA^(key): /kɹɔɪz/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪz

croise (plural croises) (obsolete)

1. A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross, i.e. a Christian crusader.
   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

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

• Cerios, Croesi, Crœsi, Recios, cories, cosier, scorie

croise

1. inflection of croiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• croies, reçois

croise f sg

1. genitive singular of cros (“cross; crosspiece; trial, affliction; prohibition”)

• IPA^(key): [kroˈise]

croise

1. third-person singular pluperfect indicative of croi

croise f sg

1. genitive singular of crois (“cross”)