rebec
or re·beck
a Renaissance fiddle with a pear-shaped body tapering into a neck that ends in a sickle-shaped or scroll-shaped pegbox.
Origin of rebec
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How to use rebec in a sentence
This rebab is an exact counterpart of the rebec formerly popular in Western Europe.
Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) | Carl EngelAnd it was so ready with refrains and lays and songs and new tunes, that harp, or viol, or rebec were as nought beside it.
Tales from the Old French | VariousIt was Rizzio's skill upon the rebec that had first attracted Mary's attention.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment | Rafael SabatiniBonnivet, during his investment of Milan, had posted Bayard with a small corps in the village of rebec.
A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times | Francois Pierre Guillaume GuizotThe rebec was not known in Arabia until nearly two centuries after we find the crwth mentioned by Venance Fortunatus.
A Popular History of the Art of Music | W. S. B. Mathews
British Dictionary definitions for rebec
rebeck
/ (ˈriːbɛk) /
a medieval stringed instrument resembling the violin but having a lute-shaped body
Origin of rebec
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