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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cremo’na.
 
An organ stop, a corruption of the Italian cormorne, which is the German krummhorn, an organ stop of eight feet pitch; so called from a wind-instrument made of wood, and bent outwards in a circular are (krummhorn, crooked horn).   1
 


 Cre’kenpit.Cremo’nas. 

 
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