单词 | lur |
释义 | lurn.1 A Bronze Age musical instrument of the horn family found in Scandinavia. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > horn > [noun] > lur or alpenhorn alphorn1814 alpenhorna1829 lure1840 lur1876 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 275/2 Lures, ancient Scandinavian trumpets. 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 56/2 There is a Swedish instrument of this kind called Lure. 1955 Times 24 May 5/5 The lur is still occasionally used in Denmark. 1961 C. W. Monk in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xi. 277 Some examples of the Danish Bronze Age lurs, cast in the shape of a mammoth tusk, have mouthpieces astonishingly like modern melodic brass instruments. 1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings i. i. 18 The long, slender, gracefully curved lurs or trumpets. 1970 W. Bray & D. Trump Dict. Archaeol. 136/1 Lurer come from the peatbogs of Denmark and are almost invariably found in pairs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Lurn.2 A member of a people inhabiting Luristan in western Iran. Chiefly in plural. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Turk > Iranian > [noun] > Iranian peoples Lura1836 Iliat1840 tuman1907 a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIII. 272/2 The Lurs are divided into the Písh-kúh..and Pusht kúh. 1909 Daily Chron. 18 Feb. 5/1 Colonel Bell formed a favourable opinion of the Lurs as a whole. 1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular iii. 89 Most of the Persian troops had not been paid for several weeks, and..when the surrender had taken place.., they had promptly sold their rifles to the neighbouring Lurs and Kurds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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