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crosse (kraws) - n., the long-handled racket with a loose triangular net used to play lacrosse.
The sport name coming from this, being nothing more than what happens when English speakers run together the French la crosse, the stick -- alternately translated as a hooked stick, staff, or crosier, and indeed crosse is cognate of that last -- which was possibly short for le jeu de la crosse, the game with the stick. In use in English since 1867.
---L.
The sport name coming from this, being nothing more than what happens when English speakers run together the French la crosse, the stick -- alternately translated as a hooked stick, staff, or crosier, and indeed crosse is cognate of that last -- which was possibly short for le jeu de la crosse, the game with the stick. In use in English since 1867.
---L.
