Noun: crants
| Singular | crants |
| Plural | crantses |
Sample Sentences
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Why forsooth? because the filthy queane weares a craunce, and is a French woman forsooth. [1592, Robert Greene, A quip for an upstart courtier:]
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Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, / Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home / Of bell and burial. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
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Dr. Furnivall has lately seen in the aisle of Ashford Church, near Bakewell, in Derbyshire, five of the "virgin crantses," or "maidens' garlands," which the priests allowed Ophelia's corpse — with other rites — by "great command." [1888, The Academy, volume 34, page 134:]
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1888 August 29, unknown author, quoted in 1983, William Benzie, Dr. F. J. Furnivall: Victorian scholar adventurer, page 181,
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In the Derby Mercury for August 29, 1888, a correspondent writes, "Henceforth, Ashford Church with its paper garlands or crantses should be visited by all Shakespeare students far and near."
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In the parish church at Matlock six exceptionally well-preserved garlands, known locally as crantses, hang in a glass-fronted cupboard in the south-west porch. [1966, Roy Christian, The Country Life Book of Old English Customs, page 56:]
Nouns inflected like crants
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare Dutch krans, German Kranz. See: Dutch Nouns '
krans', German Nouns '
Kranz'.