saltire
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The Saint Andrew's cross or saltire (2)（苏格兰国旗）
Saint Patrick's Cross, a red saltire (1) on a white background
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源自中古法语 saultoir (对比法语 sautoir)，源自sauter (“跳跃”) + -oir，源自拉丁语 saltāre (“跳舞，跳跃”) + -orium, -oria。
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saltire (复数 saltires)
- (纹章) X形
- 圣安德鲁旗（Saint Andrew's cross），苏格兰国旗
- 2011 10月 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16 – 12 Scotland”, 出自 BBC體育[1]，于26 September 2016归档自原页面:
- But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.
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- 2014 9月 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness?”, 出自 衛報[2], 伦敦，于18 April 2016归档自原页面:
- It was early August. In the Borders, there were few signs yet of a campaign that could take Scotland out of the United Kingdom. A large Y-E-S hung in separate letters from a tree on the road from Coldstream to Kelso. There wasn't a N-O to match it, but Kelso town hall flew both the saltire and the union jack.
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近义词 编辑
- (X形)： crux decussata
- (苏格兰国旗)： Saint Andrew's cross