psalteries
- plural of psaltery.
Example Sentences
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He brought a bit of everything with him: lutes, gambas, hurdy-gurdies, psalteries, fancy carved music stands and even a serpent, an old wind instrument that looks like its namesake.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2011
Once, he had carried Robin to another part of the monastery, and showed him where records of everyday living were written and poems and psalteries copied.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
All happy the psalteries, the cymbals grew light, With sounding thy triumphs from morning till night.
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan
Also the chosen of the years, The multitude being at ease, With sackbuts and with dulcimers And noise of shawms and psalteries Made mirth within the ears of these.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
In the sunny window of his musical store, surrounded by zitherns, auto-harps, dulcimers, psalteries, sackbuts, and other instrument's of melody, the advent of Nelson produced the effect of a sudden and unexpected discord.
From True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office by Train, Arthur Cheney
