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A cross whose arms widen outward and end in three flowing points each.
One of the flowering crosses: arms that broaden from the centre and split into three splayed points at each end. Distinguished from the cross fleury, whose ends terminate in fleur-de-lis rather than in splayed lobes.
A cross whose arms widen from the centre and end in three outward-curving points.
Distinguished from the cross fleury, whose arms end in fleurs-de-lis, though the two are drawn so similarly that heraldic writers disagree about individual examples.
The boundary between patonce and fleury is genuinely blurred in practice, and sources differ.
A cross whose four arms broaden as they leave the centre and each split into three outward-curving points.
Both are flowering crosses and the difference between splayed points and fleurs-de-lis is slight.