plectron

American  

[plek-tron] / ˈplɛk trɒn /

noun

• plectra
  plural

1. plectrum.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• plectra
  plural

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Example Sentences

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plectron plectra

We do not make Mantic either godless or void of reason, when we give it the soul of man as its material, and the enthusiastic spirit and exhalation as its tool or plectron.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

Each of these jacks has two plectra, one pointing to the right and one to the left.

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

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

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

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 Henry Saint-George

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

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