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crocket
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thumb|upright|Crocketed spire of the Notre-Dame Church in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine|Vitré, France
A crocket (or croquet) is a small, independent decorative element common in Gothic architecture. The name derives from the diminutive of the Old French croc, meaning "hook", due to the resemblance of a crocket to a bishop's crook-shaped crosier.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “crocket” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.