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seraphine|ˈsɛrəfiːn|
Also seraphina.
[f. seraph + -ine.]
A musical instrument of the reed kind, invented by John Green in 1833.
1839Civ. Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 318/2 Certain improvements in the construction of certain musical instruments..of the kind commonly called seraphines. 1845Gresley Frank's First Trip 201 Six or eight women..were singing a plaintive hymn, accompanied by a seraphine. 1879A. J. Hipkins in Grove's Dict. Mus. I. 667 In England keyboard harmonicas with bellows were known by the name of Seraphine, which was not an harmonium. 1900Westm. Gaz. 7 June 8/1 In most Boer houses of the better class there is an American organ or ‘seraphine’. |