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• a variation of crowd.

crwth

American  

[krooth] / kruθ /

noun

Music.

1. crowd.

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crwth British  

/ kruːθ /

noun

1. an ancient stringed instrument of Celtic origin similar to the cithara but bowed in later types

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Etymology

Origin of crwth

First recorded in 1830–40; from Welsh; cognate with Irish cruit “harp, lyre”

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Example Sentences

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crwth

My crwth and song will rouse every spirit on the hills.'

From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

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 crwth is followed by the rebec, which most of us know better from Milton’s lines— “When the merry bells ring round And the jocund rebecks sound”— than in any more practical manner. 

From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin

I wonder whether they can draw a livin' mullo up to the clouds, same as my crwth can draw one to Snowdon?'

From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

The crwth may have been a survival of this primitive discovery, still cherished among a people not able to employ it intelligently, and not able to develop its powers.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

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