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What (who) is cruciform - definition
HAVING THE SHAPE OF A CROSS
Cruciform manuscript; Cruciform melody; Cruciform plan
Cruciform
·adj Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.
cruciform
A cruciform building or object is shaped like a cross. (FORMAL)
...a cruciform tower.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
cruciform
a.
Cross-shaped, cruciate.
Wikipedia
Cruciform
Cruciform is a term for physical manifestations resembling a common cross or Christian cross. The label can be extended to architectural shapes, biology, art, and design.
Examples of use of cruciform
1. It comes back as one cruciform shape follows another against the cool, dimly blue evening.
2. Her left leg was slightly bent so that her knees touched, to form a classic cruciform shape, the court heard.
3. Further assembly will take place on arrival in the Caspian, connecting the barges to resemble a cruciform by means of ballasting and on board winch systems," said Smith.
4. Life was hard and brutal, though flogging would give way to a form of mental punishment for those sent to solitary confinement in the cruciform–shaped building known ominously as the Separate Prison.
5. Archaeologists uncovered, to their astonishment, picturesque cruciform windows buried meters below the present ground level and not seen for centuries, and walls that continue still deeper into the bone–dry clay.