cresset
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- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
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Definition of cresset
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
“Of Starry Lamps and blazing Creſſets fed ¶ With Naphtha and Aſphaltus yeilded light”
“And as a Cresset true that darts its length ¶ Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength;”
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noun
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(historical)A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
“Of Starry Lamps and blazing Creſſets fed ¶ With Naphtha and Aſphaltus yeilded light”
“And as a Cresset true that darts its length ¶ Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength;”
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A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
“1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far”
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cresset, from Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse and/or French creuset (“crucible”), the latter being from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *croceolus.
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