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
A Dutch guide to marine life from the late 1500s claims that some whale species “like to hear music played on the lute, harp, flute and similar instruments.”
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
Jein even had the Vulcan lute played by Leonard Nimoy’s “Mr. Spock.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
Devi looked at the lute, the book, and the pipes, and drew a long, slow breath.
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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He shall not open on the Sabbath a vessel the cover of which has been luted on.
From The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect by George Foot Moore
After packing the work carefully in the boxes the lids are sealed or luted with fireclay to keep out any gases from the fire.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
Sibvu´tütük´mula A series of bottomless jars piled above each other, and luted together as a chimney-top.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
It is of the form my master mostly uses—round, with a small neck and a narrow mouth, to be luted closely, without doubt.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
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 Antoine Lavoisier
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
In the meantime his glass breaks, yet he upon better luting lays wagers of the success, and promiseth wedges beforehand to his friend.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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
Instances of nouns and adjectives employed as verbs are: pennanc’d, luting, passion’d, neighbour’d, syllabling, companion’d, labrynth, anguish’d, poesied, vineyard’d, woof’d, loaned, medicin’d, zon’d, mesh, pleasure, legion’d, companion, green’d, gordian’d, character’d, finn’d, forest’d, tusk’d, monitor.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
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