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The plectra, perhaps not original, are of leather.

From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Shortridge, John D.

Master Jones, who roared as loud as ten thousand men when he was hurt; or as you vill roar if I catch you calling him Mars again?—Ares, who covered seven plectra of ground?

From The Caxtons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

These erected scales act on the string like so many infinitesimal plectra and thus produce in perfection the sustained sound attempted in a grosser manner by the tremolo of the mandoline.

From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Saint-George, Henry

But they were the kind you would have expected Nero's soldiers to be, and the arms they carried were zithers and plectra, masks and buskins.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

Implements less developed belong to a separate order of sound-producing contrivances, namely plectra, and may be described as permitting strumming by striking in place of twanging or twitching the strings.

From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by Hart, George