violoncello
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of violoncello
1715–25; < Italian, equivalent to violon ( e ) violone + -cello diminutive suffix
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It does not have the alternate darkness and brightness of the violin or the alternate bass strength and majesty and tenor fervor of the violoncello, but preserves a characteristic romantic melancholy throughout.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the guests had taken their chairs, Casals bent over his 250-year-old Goffriller violoncello and, with a characteristic grimace, began to draw out the golden notes of Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a member of the viol family, lying midway between the violin and the violoncello.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then there's the all-female violoncello quartet known collectively as Cello.
From Time Magazine Archive
He locked himself into his bedroom with his child, and droned out, to soothe her, a fantasia on the violoncello.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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