A stringed instrument of the harp kind, used by the Greeks for accompanying song and recitation.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > harp or lyre > [noun] > lyre (20) lyrec1275 A stringed instrument of the harp kind, used by the Greeks for accompanying song and recitation. lyraa1586 A lyre. (Occasionally in Italian form lira.) See also compounds 1. shell1747 poetic. A lyre (in allusion to the legend that the first lyre was a tortoise shell stringed); occasionally (cf. lyre, n.1 1b) put for ‘lyric poetry’… Subcategories:— Aeolian (5) — cithara (3) — other lyres (9) |
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