crosier

variants or crozier

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Recent Examples of crosier World & Nation Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years Dec. 6, 2024 The ceremony began with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors, tapping them three times with his fire-scarred crosier. Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024 Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door. Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024 McElroy moved slowly during the service, often resting his hands on a wooden crosier, a staff shaped like a shepherd’s crook. San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crosier
Noun
  • Sorrentino may also be exorcising some conflicting feelings about his birthplace, which is portrayed as a vulgar, crude place populated by crooks and hicks and photographed like its paradise.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The actor carried a medium black Peekaboo in the crook of her elbow, a crossbody strap emblazoned with the telltale double-F Fendi logo hanging down beside her.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The basilica has put in new protective glass in front of Michelangelo’s Pieta sculpture, which was attacked with a hammer in 1972, while a similar incident of a man throwing candelabra off the main altar occurred in 2019.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Witnesses said several thousand protesters, some armed with sticks, hammers and other tools, gathered around the historic house and independence monument, while others brought a crane and excavator to demolish the building.
    Reuters, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the 2018 midterms, Republicans lost 41 House seats and the speaker's gavel.
    Hans Nichols, Axios, 28 Jan. 2025
  • In a letter to House Republicans last week, right after Johnson won the Speaker’s gavel, members of the Freedom Caucus board of directors issued a series of demands for legislation in the 119th Congress, including spending cuts.
    Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Their specialties include 45-piece discovery boxes, hot chocolate mix, and the unique Chocolate Box - a massive block of chocolate with wooden mallets.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • This also prevents your meat mallet from getting dirty as well.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th century, presidential pins, walking sticks and handkerchiefs were also popular items.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • He was reportedly found on a service road, supporting himself with two walking sticks and a cut-up sleeping bag wrapped around his legs for warmth.
    Jennifer Hauser, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Land turtles will munch on beetles, fruit and grass, according National Geographic Kids.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • There were 15 animals housed at the center, including snakes, lizards, beetles, toads and a tarantula.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024

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