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
Jein even had the Vulcan lute played by Leonard Nimoy’s “Mr. Spock.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
She's fine with Edgin acting as the squad's leader, the guy whose main weapons are a lute and speechifying.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023
“I thought you might have changed your plans. I hadn’t seen you carrying your lute around lately.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
The boxes are carefully luted and packed in an annealing furnace, where they are kept at a white heat for a week or more, and then allowed to cool gradually.
The seams of the box are well luted with clay to prevent the gases from the consumed bone-dust from escaping, and to exclude air.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The covers are then luted on and the pots placed in the furnace.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
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 Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
Now fit the whole pipe, bowl inverted, on to the under one, luting the edges of both well with clay.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson
Argoil: potter's clay, used for luting or closing vessels in the laboratories of the alchemists; Latin, "argilla;" French, "argile."
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
The wind of vision died in my brain; and lo, The jangling of the caravan's long gait Was small as the luting of a breeze in grass Upon my ears.
From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
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 L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng
As he was about to pass luting through the entrance, Lysidice parted the curtains and entered the room.
From The Proud Prince by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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