crotchet
5 synonyms for crotchet, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — In music, a note held for one beat of a four-beat bar.
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Etymology
From Middle English crochet, from Old French crochet (“small hook”), from croc + -et (diminutive suffix), from Old Norse krókr (“hook”). The musical note was named so because of a small hook on its stem in black notation (in modern notation this hook is on the quaver/eighth note). Doublet of crochet, crocket, and croqu...
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