† cross-daysn.
Obsolete. With plural agreement.
1. The Rogation Days, or three days preceding Ascension Day.
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1501 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 152 From Lyncolns Inn, at London, this tuesday in the crose dayes.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 11 The onely time for puttinge of fatte weathers is about Easter and crosse dayes.
2. Days of persecution when the ‘cross’ has to be borne. (Probably with allusion to sense 1.)
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1555 J. Philpot Let. in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 246 Wherefore contend in these cross-days, which be the love-days of God towards us.
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