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crotchet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
| Type of | strangeness, unfamiliarity |
| Derivation | crotchety |
crotchet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | quarter note |
| Type of | musical note, note, tone |
crotchet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hook |
| Type of | curve, curved shape |
| Has types | uncus |
crotchet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | hook |
Examples of crotchet
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The song is written as a march, with repeated crotchet notes in the opening melody.
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The women are trained to crotchet and uses hand blown glass beads to make bracelets and necklaces.
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The French name, croche is from the same source as crotchet, the British name for the quarter note.
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Next to the machine sits the crotchet piece she had been working before she died in 1990 at age 88.
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Through Genger's incessantly busy fingers, the gentle arts of knitting and crotchet pull us toward infinity and chaos.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The same instrument recorded a crotchet, an instantaneous perturbation of the Earth's ionosphere by ionizing soft X-rays.
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Even conservative Banana Republic has a sleeveless chocolate-brown knit dress with crotchet-detail holes that reveal a slip underneath.
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Early references to the craft in Godey's Lady's Book in 1846 and 1847 refer to crotchet before the spelling standardized in 1848.
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Many of their shorts-suits and breezy knits were made in the same embroidered fabrics or crotchet for both lines, down to the fey floppy summer hats.
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- Hook: a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- Quarter note: a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
- Oddity: a strange attitude or habit
- A small tool or hooklike implement
- A note lasting for one beat. Crotchets are often called "quarter-notes".
- The [ ] square brackets used in text to indicate words to be omitted.
- (technically, crotchet du glasis): a passage around traverse on the covered way.
- A whimsical fancy, a peculiar notion held by an individual in opposition to popular opinion (1831).
- A long-shafted seta with a hooked or curved end
