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▪ I. ˈsennet1 Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 6 senet, (sonnet), 7 sennit, sennate, sinet, synnet, cynet, signate, sennet.
[app. a variant of signet, in the sense ‘sign, token’ (see signet n. 5).
The forms senet, sinet, and others, occur in OF. as variants of signet, which, however, seems not to occur either in the sense below or in the wider sense of token. The word may possibly be Anglo-French.]
A set of notes on the trumpet or cornet, ordered in the stage-directions of Elizabethan plays, apparently as a signal for the ceremonial entrance or exit of a body of players.
c1590Marlowe Faust 862 Sound a Sonnet [1609, 1611 Sinet], enter the Pope and the Cardinall of Lorraine to the banket, with Friers attending. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, i. i. 205 Senet. Here they come down. 1602Dekker Satirom. F 4, Trumpets sound a florish, and then a sennate. Enter King [etc.]. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. i. B 2 b, The Cornets sound a Synnet. Ibid. B 3 b, The Cornets sound a Cynet. 16051st Pt. Ieronimo i. i, Sound a signate, and passe ouer the stage... After a long signate is sounded, enter all the nobles. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv, Trumpets, Sennet, and Cornets. a1619Fletcher Valentinian v. viii, A Synnet with Trumpets. 1922Joyce Ulysses 471 Four buglers on foot blow a sennet. 1942E. Blom Music in Eng. iii. 49 Shakespeare was much attached to music, and it would be rash to conclude from the mere evidence of printed texts that he contented himself in his plays with a few songs and an occasional tucket (toccata) or sennet (sonata) for trumpets behind the scenes.
▪ II. sennet2 Nat. Hist.|ˈsɛnɪt|
Also 7–8 sinnet.
[? From some W.-Indian lang.]
A West-Indian fish; = barracuda.
1671J[ohn] H[ardie] in Lefroy's Mem. of Bermudas (1879) II. 344 Which [fish] the people store As Pilchards, Sinnets [etc.]. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 451 Perca? i. Minor subargentea. The Sinnet. 1859J. M. Jones Nat. in Bermuda 105 The Sennet is likewise a common fish in the waters of Bermuda, and sells freely in the market. 1876Goode Fishes of Bermudas 62 Sphyræna Picuda... Sennet. |