lute
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Ms. Salvant’s 2023 release, “Mélusine,” included songs that dated back to the 12th century, sung in four languages, and made prominent use of the theorbo, the plucked lute used for Baroque basso continuo accompaniment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Franglen's creations included a long-necked lute, similar to a Turkish saz, with strings that represent the rigging of the Wind Traders' ship.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
For “Bound,” Huang turned to Vietnamese instruments, using both the đàn bầu, a type of lute, and đàn tranh, a type of zither.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
This object is about 18 lightyears away, located in Lyra, the minor constellation often depicted as a vulture carrying a lute.
From Salon ● May 17, 2023
I let it build, taking my time as I unclasped my battered secondhand lute case and removed my battered secondhand lute.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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I wouldn't trade the cramped, pol luted, noisy and ungovernable city for any purified and antiseptic community in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Having extended the body on the platform of the air-pump, lowered the receiver and luted the rim, I undertook to submit it gradually to the influence of a dry vacuum and cold.
From The Man With The Broken Ear by Holt, Henry
When the floor of the kiln has been covered with slabs of glass the opening is carefully built up and luted with fire-bricks and fire-clay, and the whole is then allowed to cool.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
The whole was enclosed in a good Hessian crucible, previously smeared with charcoal, with a luted cover, and exposed for twenty minutes to the high heat of a small chemical blast-furnace.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
After filling to the top with compound, the lid D is luted on.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)
Before beginning any experiment, the closeness of the luting ought always to be previously tried, either by slightly heating the retort A, Pl.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
As he was about to pass luting through the entrance, Lysidice parted the curtains and entered the room.
From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
As they were talking, in came one of the Khalif's maidservants and whispered him that they had heard a noise of singing and luting in Mehboubeh's chamber and knew not what this meant.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John
Wine-stained moments on the wing, Moonlit hours go luting by, She who leads the flight of Spring Leads the midnight revelry.
From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot)
Put two or three spoonfuls of water to them, and cover them close with another dish, luting their joyning that nothing may expire.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
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