plectron
noun
plectra
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pluralof plectron.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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pluralof plectrum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
plectrumnouna small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
Example Sentences
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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 Herbert Baldwin Foster
It is made of seven or eight hard- wood slats, pinned with bamboo tacks to transverse banana trunks lying on the ground: like the grande caisse, it is played upon with sticks, plectra like tent-pegs.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
To paraphrase a popular expression, "fingers were made before plectra," the latter being an "improvement" on nature's contrivance.
From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George
Of course it is understood that both types of virginals as well as the spinet and the harpsichord were keyed chordophones employing the plucking action of jacks and plectra.
From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by John D. Shortridge
The plectra nearest the keyboard points the same way whether the jack is upside down or not.
From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by John D. Shortridge
