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crotchet

[kroch-it] / ˈkrɒtʃ ɪt /


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Ms Crofts described the crotchet part of the project as a "labour of love", and said she took it with her wherever she went so she could work on it during spare moments.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2023

It’s also even in more mundane ways, in cross-stitch, in crotchet and quilting, creating beauty literally from the scraps on the margins.

From Washington Post Jul. 12, 2022

But then, each of the dead has some crotchet or obsession.

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2015

"I can't read or write music," she said, "but if I were a musician, I'd have put a crotchet here instead of a quaver."

From The Guardian May 8, 2013

He must have been a sanitary man; his fiddle was a crotchet.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by




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