crotchet
Example Sentences
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Maybe you already sew, crotchet, build furniture, compose music or write short stories.
From Seattle Times
The relation a lived life bears to the black marks on the page is more akin to the way musicians turn minims and crotchets into the sublime craziness, of, say, Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge.
From The Guardian
A yellow crotchet collar is the one she wears when she announces a majority opinion for the Supreme Court, she told Katie Couric.
From Fox News
He named his invention Velcro, a combination of “velour” and “crotchet,” the French words for velvet and hook.
From Seattle Times
As for the campaign for zero cash in the service of negative interest rates, Mr. Rogoff’s brief is best seen not as detached scientific analysis but as a kind of left-wing crotchet.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
