rebec
noun
a Renaissance fiddle with a pear-shaped body tapering into a neck that ends in a sickle-shaped or scroll-shaped pegbox.
rebeck
-
a variation of
rebec.
Example Sentences
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In the sixteenth century the three-stringed rebeck received a fourth string and became the violin, the most expressive of all musical instruments.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
"For all that day to the rebeck gay They danced with frolicsome swains."
From Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) by Samuel Strickland
I would fain have thee see me with the rebeck; 'twould be fine sport for thee.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
My merry mates, the morrice dancers," thought he; "I would know old Jeremy's rebeck among an hundred.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
In odorous purple, where the falling warble Of water cascades and the plunged foam glows, A columned ruin lifts its sculptured marble Friezed with the chiselled rebeck and the rose.
From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Julius Madison Cawein
