rebec
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rebec
1745–55; < Middle French; replacing Middle English ribibe < Old French rebebe ≪ Arabic rabāb rebab
Example Sentences
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The action is accompanied by music suggestive of everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, played on reproductions of such authentic medieval instruments as a psaltery, a rebec, a minstrel's harp.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vocal parts suggest everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, the orchestra includes such authentic curiosities as a rebec, a vielle and a minstrel's harp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next came the minstrels, playing merrily on tabor, fife, sacbut, rebec, and tambourine.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Hark! hark! the rebec calls,—Glycere Again may foot it on the green; Her rivalry I need not fear, These flowers shall crown the Village Queen.
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane
The following were the names of the instruments: cittern, bagpipe, clarion, rebec, psaltery, syrinx, sackbut, regals, gittern, shalm, timbral, and cymbals!
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert
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