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Definition of Crisscrossed
1. Adjective. Marked with crossing lines.
Definition of Crisscrossed
1. Adjective. Marked by lines crossing in two or more directions. ¹
2. Verb. (past of crisscross) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crisscrossed
1. crisscross [v] - See also: crisscross
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crisscrossed
Literary usage of Crisscrossed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. World's-End by Amélie Rives (1914)
"And Aunt Charlotte, beating time with her little hand, all crisscrossed with a
high relief of slippery lilac veins, and followed in its motions by the ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"Above a filmy dome are always stretched many crisscrossed threads for some distance
up. ... Are there many crisscrossed threads extending above the dome? ..."
3. My Lorraine Journal by Edith O'Shaughnessy (1918)
"The stained-glass windows, modern and very expensive-looking, were crisscrossed
with broad stripes of paper on the side toward the railway, where the shocks ..."
4. My Lorraine Journal by Edith O'Shaughnessy (1918)
"The stained-glass windows, modern and very expensive-looking, were crisscrossed
with broad stripes of paper on the side toward the railway, where the shocks ..."
5. New England Bygones by Ellen Chapman Hobbs Rollins (1883)
"The school-house yard was a sunny spot, defined by four Hat corner-stones, good
for the game of goal, crisscrossed by two hard-trodden paths, and littered ..."
6. Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr by Sara Anderson Immerwahr, Anne Proctor Chapin (2004)
"Selected Mesopotamian examples of (1) overlapped attack: whereas most of the
earlier Near Eastern works depict rampant, crisscrossed animals that do not ..."
7. Albert by Daniel Oldis (1986)
"Nevertheless, he's piled inside a crate in front of the old prosecutor's table
in the old trial room with those arrows crisscrossed in his rib cage. ..."
8. Annual Report (1910)
"Are there many crisscrossed threads extending above the dome? ... Above a filmy
dome are always stretched many crisscrossed threads for some distance up. ..."
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