chin rest

noun

1. a device fixed to the top of a violin or viola to provide a firm rest for the player's chin.

Example Sentences

D.I.Y. makers have turned old cloth masks into all sorts of things, including chin rests for violins and doll clothes.

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A chin rests on a hand before the shoulders rise and fall in a perfunctory sigh.

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The younger man let his chin rest on his chest as the message sank in.

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The string section—violins and violas, cellos and basses—are composed almost entirely of carbon compounds: Wooden belly, fingerboard, sound post, pegs and tailpiece; gut strings, horsehair bow and plastic chin rest.

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Its chin rest is made of the same—what your cheek would be if it could.

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