Crisscross

/ˈkrɪskrɔːs/ verb

To move back and forth across something in a pattern of crossing lines; to cross each other at angles; a pattern of intersecting lines.

From 'Christ-cross' (a Christian cross), from the 1600s as a children's term, eventually shortened and used to describe any X-shaped crossing pattern.

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