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Definition of Calvary cross
1. Noun. A Latin cross set on three steps.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calvary Cross
Literary usage of Calvary cross
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1876)
"calvary cross IN HANMER CHURCHYARD. IT is stated in a recent work1 that" there
were probably not fewer than five thousand crosses in England at the time of ..."
2. A Grammar of British Heraldry, Consisting of Blazon and Marshalling ; with by William Sloane Sloane-Evans (1854)
"The three steps which form part of the calvary cross signify the three Graces
whereby ... When the three arms of a calvary cross are again crossed (like the ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1893)
"Next to this, again, lies another, bearing only a design, and on the right the
figures of a chalice and plain calvary cross of five steps, with the sacred ..."
4. A Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms by ORBY. SHIPLEY (1872)
"A contraction for calvary cross. calvary cross. A crucifix, with attendant figures,
placed generally on a mound, representing the hill of Calvary, ..."
5. A Catalogue Raisonné of the British Museum Collection of Rubbings from by Christian Maclagan, British museum (1898)
"One side of it, almost from base to summit, is occupied with a calvary cross and
nimbus, while the whole surrounding space is clothed with the richest ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When the elongated shaft of a cross on a alab rises from two or more steps at
its base, il is said to be a calvary cross. After a while, a brie inscription ..."
7. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward (1896)
"151—160 The CROSS as a Charge—Varieties of—The Passion, or Long Cross —Cross
Calvary—Cross Patriarchal—Cross of LORRAINE— Greek Cross, or Cross Couped—Cross ..."
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