crotchet
Example Sentences
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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
If he got a crotchet inter his head, you couldn't beat it out—he was worse now than he was afore he got married the second time.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
