单词 | lute-string |
释义 | lute-stringn.1 1. A string of (or adapted for) a lute. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > guitar or lute type > [noun] > lute > parts of lute-string1530 lute-pin1596 gripe1610 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 241/2 Lutestryng, cordeav, cordon de lus. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. ci. 143 Long threedes (like to very fine and small lutestrings). 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 55 His iesting spirit, which is now crept into a lute-string, and now gouernd by stops. View more context for this quotation 1630 W. Davenant Cruell Brother v. i Thy wrist vaynes are cut, Heere In this Bason bleed: till drynesse made them curle Like Lute-strings in the fire. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 70 A Lute-string will bear a hundred Weight without Rupture. 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 50 Her lute-string gave an echo of his name. 1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 37 There came..A sweep of lute-strings, laughs, and whifts of song. 2. A noctuid moth having lines resembling the strings of a lute on its wings. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae lute-string1819 russet1819 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 402 The lesser Lutestring..The Poplar Lutestring. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. Index Lute~string moths. 1843 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths I. 202. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11530 |
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