crotchet
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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
Quaver, kwā′vėr, v.i. to shake: to sing or play with tremulous modulations.—n. a trembling: a vibration of the voice: a note in music=half a crotchet or one-eighth of a semibreve.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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