palm-cross
† a. A cross, usually a monumental cross in a churchyard, formerly decorated with palm-branches (or substitutes for them) on Palm Sunday. Obs. b. (See quot. 1855.)
| 1469–70 in Swayne Sarum Church-w. Acc. (1896) 13 Pro emend'de le Palmecros. 1525 in Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bp. Stortford (1882) 39 Pd. for quarter of lyme to set up w{supt}alle the palme crosse..xvjd. 15.. Will in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 334 Palme Crose within the kirkegarth. a 1568 [see padle]. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Palm Crosses, ornamental combinations of small crosses made of the peeled willow palm, put together with pins and studded with the blossoms. These memorials of the season are then suspended from the top of the room. |