"crants" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1592, Robert Greene, A quip for an upstart courtier",
          "text": "Why forsooth? because the filthy queane weares a craunce, and is a French woman forsooth.",
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          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "1966, Roy Christian, The Country Life Book of Old English Customs, page 56",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(obsolete) A garland carried before the bier of a maiden and subsequently hung over the grave."
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          "text": "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.\"",
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