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lute
1[ loot ]
noun
- a stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back.
verb (used without object)
- to play a lute.
verb (used with object)
- to perform (music) on a lute:
a musician skilled at luting Elizabethan ballads.
- to express (a feeling, mood, etc.) by means of a lute:
The minstrel eloquently luted his melancholy.
lute
2[ loot ]
noun
verb (used with object)
- to seal or cement with luting.
lute
3[ loot ]
noun
- a paving tool for spreading and smoothing concrete, consisting of a straightedge mounted transversely on a long handle.
verb (used with object)
- to spread and smooth (concrete in a pavement) with a lute.
lute
1/ luːt /
noun
- an ancient plucked stringed instrument, consisting of a long fingerboard with frets and gut strings, and a body shaped like a sliced pear
lute
2/ luːt /
noun
- Also calledluting a mixture of cement and clay used to seal the joints between pipes, etc
- dentistry a thin layer of cement used to fix a crown or inlay in place on a tooth
verb
- tr to seal (a joint or surface) with lute
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Example Sentences
Its wildly combustible songs were the perfect material for Jules Buckley’s orchestra, who ramped up the album's gothic overtones with harpsichords, lutes and long crescendos of percussion.
A Dutch guide to marine life from the late 1500s claims that some whale species “like to hear music played on the lute, harp, flute and similar instruments.”
On stage he dances like a Korean performer, to sounds from rain sticks, panpipes and lutes traditional to the Peruvian highlands.
Outside the church, Byrd wrote florid music for the virginal, and pioneered the consort song, a precursor to the lute song.
This object is about 18 lightyears away, located in Lyra, the minor constellation often depicted as a vulture carrying a lute.
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