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/mɔltˈiz krɔs/ Listen

Maltese cross

noun

Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads. Synonyms: Lychins chalcedonica, scarlet lychnis.

A cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the center.

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Etymology of 'Maltese cross'

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"Maltese cross" Quotes from Famous Books

... courage. Thus arose the most coveted and honourable of English orders, which confers more glory on its wearer than the jewelled star of the Order of the Garter gives distinction. In excellent keeping with the motive of the creation, the Maltese cross is of the plainest material, iron from the cannon taken at Sebastopol; in the centre is the crown, surmounted by the lion; below it the scroll "For Valour." On the clasp are branches of laurel; the cross ...

— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II • Sarah Tytler

... was surveyed in rectangular squares; it was incorporated as a village in 1816, and chartered as a city in 1834. In general outline the city resembles a Maltese cross. It extends eight miles north and south, and seven miles east and west on its arms of expansion. Its longest streets, High and Broad, bisect the city north and south, and east and west respectively. The uniform width of the former ...

— The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado • Logan Marshall

Words linked to "Maltese cross" : lychnis, cross, catchfly