Crossword clues for crispin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crispin \Cris"pin\ (kr?s"p?n), n.
A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.
A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "shoemaker," in literary use only, from Ss. Crispin and Crispinian (martyred at Soissons, c.285 C.E.), patrons of shoemakers. French hagiographers make the brothers noble Romans who, while they preached in Gaul, worked as shoemakers to avoid living on the alms of the faithful. The name is Crispinus, a Roman cognomen, from Latin crispus "curly" (probably with reference to hair; see crisp).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context jocular dated English) A shoemaker. 2 A variety of apple, the Mutsu. n. 1 (given name male from=Latin). 2 A Roman shoemaker, martyr and saint (brother of Crispinian); patron saint of cobblers and tanners.
Wikipedia
Crispin may refer to:
- Crispin (apple) or Mutsu apple, a cross between the Golden Delicious and the Indo apple varieties
- Crispin (given name)
- Crispin (surname)
- Crispin Hard Cider Company
- Crispin of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia and saint
- Crispin of Viterbo (1668–1750), Italian saint and member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
- Crispin: The Cross of Lead, a 2002 children's novel
- Crispin: At the Edge of the World, a 2006 children's novel
- Crispin School, a secondary school in Street, Somerset, England
- Crispin (Shannara), a character in Terry Brooks' Shannara novels
- Crispin (wizard), a character in King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! video game
- Crispin, a character in The Mistmantle Chronicles by M. I. McAllister
- Crispin, the subject of Wallace Stevens' long poem "The Comedian as the Letter 'C'"
- Crispin, a supporting character from Daddy Daycare
- Crispin: The Pig Who Had It All, a 2000 picture book by Ted Dewan
- Crispin, a trade name for tramadol
Crispin is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet (born 1944), Advocate, officer of arms former explorer and Chief of the Name and Arms of Agnew
- Crispin Beltran (1933–2008), Filipino politician and a labor leader
- Crispin Blunt (born 1960), the Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Reigate
- Crispin Bonham-Carter (born 1969), English actor
- Crispin Castro Monroy (born 1936), Mexican municipal president of Santa Cruz Atizapán from January 1970 to January 1972
- Crispin Conroy (born 1963), Australian diplomat
- Crispin Duenas (born 1986), Canadian Olympic recurve archer
- Crispin Freeman (born 1972), American voice actor
- Crispin Glover (born 1964), American film actor
- Crispin S. Gregoire (born in 1956), Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Commonwealth of Dominica
- Crispin Grey-Johnson (born 1946), Gambian political figure
- Crispin Gray, guitarist and songwriter for musical groups Queen Adreena and The Dogbones
- Crispin Hunt, English lead singer of the Britpop group Longpigs
- Crispin Nash-Williams (1932–2001), English and Canadian mathematician
- Crispin Salvador (1937–2002), Filipino writer and intellectual known for his novels, essays and short-fiction
- Crispin Sanchez (1925–2008), South Texas trailblazer in the fields of Mexican-American education and sports
- Crispin Sartwell (born 1958), American philosophy professor, anarchist and journalist
- Crispin Shumina, member of the Pan-African Parliament from Zambia
- Crispin Tickell (born 1930), English diplomat, environmentalist and academic
- Crispin van den Broeck (1523–1591), Flemish painter
- Crispin Wright (born 1942), English philosopher
Fictional characters:
- Crispin Cronk, character in the Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling
Crispin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Ann C. Crispin (1950–2013), American science fiction writer
- Edmund Crispin (1921–1978), pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English crime writer
- Gilbert Crispin (c. 1055 – 1117), Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk.
- Jessa Crispin (born 1978), editor-in-chief of Bookslut, a litblog and webzine
- Joe Crispin (born 1979), American professional basketball player
- Jon Crispin (born 1981), American collegiate basketball player
- Mark Crispin (born 1956), inventor of the IMAP protocol
Usage examples of "crispin".
Sir Crispin Bellhanger, KCB, DSO, MC and so on, despite the handles to his name, was the most democratic of bosses.
He was one of the unhappy few who refused to call Crispin Bellhanger, Cris and the most endlessly vocal member of the Board.
It seemed I was seeing Crispin Bellhanger, who took to command so easily, in a rare and unexpected moment of defeat.
Jenny was shouting at me from the top of the stairs and asking if I thought that Sir Crispin Bellhanger was more important than her and the children.
Sir Crispin Bellhanger might commit a terrible atrocity in time of war.
He announced that they had found in favour of the plaintiff, Sir Crispin Bellhanger, and awarded him 500,000 worth of damages.
I asked him about athletics, and he said that Helen De Crispin High School had a track team, despite the lack of breatheable air.
Crispin silently put away the parchments and the pens and ink, and called a servant to help him move Matthew in his chairbed nearer to the hearth and then he went out.
And Crispin and Sharon became more and more suspect after the termination of their children.
After a few more interchanges and some seriocomic pantomime on the part of Keikano who now stood a pace behind his minister, Crispin Reventlo dirust out his hand.
When his debts had been paid and house, horses, cook, gardener, stablemen, and all had vanished into limbo, Crispin and I, without close relatives, were left with no home to go to and precisely one hundred and forty-three pounds each.
Crispin struggled to a sitting position and saw a cleric approaching in the white robes of the order of the Sleepless Ones.
They went outside-though not through the main entranceway-and the Emperor's guards conducted them with torches across a dark garden space and along a stone path with statuary strewn about them, looming and receding in the windy, beclouded night Crispin could hear the sea.
Crispin Goldreich, the senator chairing the Commonwealth budgetary commission.
Even if your betrothal to Lord Guy's son was ended, for whatever reason, it would still be somewhat of an insult to our liege lord for us to seek an alliance with the Crispins through you, when the earl had himself sought that alliance through his son.