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criss-cross

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
criss-cross/ˈkrɪskrɒs/

▶noun a pattern of intersecting straight lines or paths. ▶adjective (of a pattern) containing a number of intersecting straight lines or paths. ▶verb

1 form a criss-cross pattern on (a place).

2 move or travel around (a place) by going back and forth repeatedly.

– origin C17 (denoting a figure of a cross preceding the alphabet in a hornbook): from Christ-cross, later treated as a reduplication of cross.

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