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noun a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office
originFrom Middle English; originally referring to the staff bearer, from a merger of Old French words crocier (“bearer of a cross”) and croisier (“one who bears or has to do with a cross”), ultimately from Latin crux (“cross”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0