- a variation of crowd.
crwth
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of crwth
First recorded in 1830–40; from Welsh; cognate with Irish cruit “harp, lyre”
Example Sentences
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The second class of musical bards was composed of the players upon the crwth, of six strings.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
The rebec was not known in Arabia until nearly two centuries after we find the crwth mentioned by Venance Fortunatus.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
Was I really to take the spectacle that had seemed to fall upon my eyes when listening to Sinfi's crwth, or rather when listening to her song, as evidence that Winifred was alive?
From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton
The instrument is tuned thus: At the beginning of the 19th century, William Bingley2 heard a Welsh peasant playing national airs on a crwth strung as follows:—.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
The crwth here figured was made last century by Owain Tyddwr of Dolgelly, an old man who remembered the instrument as it was in his younger days, and took great pleasure in its reconstruction.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
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