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up-bow
[ uhp-boh ]
noun
- (in bowing on a stringed instrument) a stroke toward the heel of the bow: indicated in scores by the symbol V ( down-bow ).
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Word History and Origins
Origin of up-bow1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
A moment later Flora and Alice brought their boat up bow and bow.
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In a manner not dissimilar to my beginning of the fletching art, I took up bow making.
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In music for stringed instruments of the violin family, the sign indicates down-bow and the sign up-bow.
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Her lips were parted to call orders to her warriors to take up bow and spears; then her lovely eyes widened.
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In commencing the study of staccato bowing it is well to confine oneself to the up-bow form at first.
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