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It’s might be called a croix gammée, a whirling log, fylfot, tetraskelion, gammadation, or cross cramponnée, for instance.—Anne Quito, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2019
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Middle English, device used to fill the lower part of a painted glass window (from a conjectural manuscript reading)
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