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psaltery
[ sawl-tuh-ree ]
noun
- an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- (initial capital letter) the Psalter.
psaltery
/ ˈsɔːltərɪ /
noun
- music an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre, but having a trapezoidal sounding board over which the strings are stretched
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of psaltery1
Example Sentences
Once, he had carried Robin to another part of the monastery, and showed him where records of everyday living were written and poems and psalteries copied.
Thus did I fulfil my vow, and we brought you up to read the scripture, and sweetly did you sing to the psaltery.
What, false knave, did I buy thee a fire new psaltery to be minded o' my latter end withal?
Among the Russians, the gusli is an instrument of a different type, a kind of psaltery having five or more strings stretched across a flat, shallow sound-chest in the shape of a wing.
Or else the seraphim would call: "Minstrels, your dulcimers let fall And break the silvern psalteries!"
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