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”

Example Sentences

I dessay you've often heard the sayin' "The sperrits follow the crwth."

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

Then without saying another word Sinfi took up her crwth and moved towards the llyn.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

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 Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

The Welsh crwth was therefore obviously not an exclusively Welsh instrument, but only a late 18th-century survival in Wales of an archaic instrument once generally popular in Europe but long obsolete.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

For while the crwth was in Europe two centuries before the violin, the improvement of this instrument was due to stimulation from quite another quarter.

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