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Merriam Webster's
noun Etymology: Welsh Date: 1793 crowd III,1
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Crwth Crwth (kr[=oo]th), n. [W.] (Mus.) See 4th Crowd.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Crowd Crowd, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve. Cf. Rote.] An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.] A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little. --B. Jonson.
