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Meanings of plain cross in English

Russian
кресты
Portuguese
cruz
Spanish
cruz heráldica
Catalan
creu
Wikidata

Ordinary in heraldic blazon.

кресты
Usage of plain cross in English
1
It was a plain cross, smashed in several places so that the letters were disconnected.
Voices in the dark
2
Doctor Harmon said she was a little tryant, and the nurse that she was plain cross.
The Harvester
3
As he was crossing a street his troubled eyes rested upon a plain cross over a lowly chapel door.
From Jest to Earnest
4
The plain cross, by contrast, has the tenderest meaning, and is a simple and fitting monument that no repetition can stale.
Certain Personal Matters
5
At last she came to a very plain cross without jewels, without carving, and with only the word, "Love," inscribed upon it.
Pushing to the Front
6
I kept my eyes upon the ground, upon the plain crosses that marked the graves.
The Garden of Allah
7
We were in the great plain crossed by the Ponte de Pedra rivulet, flowing southward.
Across Unknown South America
8
Presently he found himself upon a hill, from which he could see a vast plain crossed by a wide highway.
Pinocchio in Africa
9
French Quiltings, Knitting, Various Sorts of marking with the Embellishments of Royal cross, Plain cross, Queen, Irish, and Tent Stitches.
Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771
10
The city sits on a plain crossed by five rowdy river systems and dozens of individual rivers that naturally swell each season.
BBC
11
On the largest plain crossed by the party four emus appeared, and one of them was killed after a fine chase by the dogs.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...