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crusader|kruːˈseɪdə(r)|
Also 8–9 croisader.
[f. crusade v. (or n.) + -er. Cf. obs. F. croisadeur (Cotgr.).]
a. One who engages in a crusade.
1743W. Whitehead Ess. Ridicule, If, crusaders like, their zeal be rage. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. III. 169 Standing cross-legged, like our Effigies of Croisaders in Churches. 1825Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. (1843) I. 133 Badge of croisaders. 1866Treas. Bot. 292 The crusaders found Citrons, Oranges, and Lemons very abundant in Palestine.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1845E. Warburton Crescent & Cross II. xlvi. 238 Such a scene unchanged might that old Crusader-castle have witnessed, six hundred years ago. 1864J. A. Grant Walk across Africa 143 The drums..are on the ground, in a line, each having a large white cross on its head—a strange Crusader-like custom. 1906Daily Chron. 6 Apr. 3/5 The finest Crusader ruin extant. 1907G. L. Bell Desert & Sown ix. 198 The great crusader fortress towards which we were going. Ibid. 205 The castle is the ‘Kerak of the Knights’ of Crusader chronicles. 1936T. E. Lawrence (title) Crusader castles. 1968C. Forsyte Murder with Minarets xviii. 119 On one arm of a bay stood what they took to be a Crusader castle. |