rebeck
- a variation of rebec.
Example Sentences
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Dead is the noble Badebec, Who had a face like a rebeck; A Spanish body, and a belly Of Switzerland; she died, I tell ye, In childbirth.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Among them were some that played the fife, the rebeck, the viol, and the bagpipe with a mighty din.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
Thou hast drawn all the thread out of my shift with thy gentilesse; thou hast tickled my heart with thy rebeck.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John
Wherefore you with your lute, and I to play with you on my rebeck, will please them greatly.
From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Rhys, Ernest
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 Cawein, Julius Madison
