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Definition of Cressets
1. cresset [n] - See also: cresset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cressets
Literary usage of Cressets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages by John BRITTON (1838)
"... but in the same reign, pitch-boxes (ie posts with cressets at the top, ascended
by ladders or jagged poles) came into use. [Lord Coke, ut supra. ..."
2. Domestic Life in England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With (1835)
"... Before the introduction of lamps, our streets were lit with cressets, which
are thus described. The word cresset, Mr. Douce thinks, to have been derived ..."
3. Recollections of the Peninsula by Moyle Sherer (1824)
"Blazing cressets, fire balls, rockets, the explosion of shells, and the red
flashes of cannon, ... cressets ..."
4. Smeaton and Lighthouses: A Popular Biography, with an Historical by John Smeaton (1844)
"Origin of Lighthouses — Beacon Fires — Character of the Early Watch-towers—cressets—Colossus
of Rhodes—The Pharos of Alexandria—Epitome of Ancient ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1908)
"At St. Augustine's, Canterbury, the sub-chamberlain had charge of the cressets
in the dormitory, and had to light them. The chamberlain had to provide them, ..."
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