| 单词 | minikin string |
| 释义 | > as lemmasminikin string a. A thin strand of catgut used for the treble strings of a lute or viol. More fully minikin string. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > lute- or viol-type parts > [noun] > specific strings minikin1541 bass1560 treble1560 mean1654 G string1831 cantino1876 1541 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 325 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 For ij dossen off lewte stringes callyd ‘menekyns’. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 2v In luting..a treble minikin string must alwayes be let down, but at suche time as when a man must nedes playe. 1580 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 81 ij knotes of menykinges, iiij d. 1636 T. Nabbes Tottenham Court II. iv. 22 If I forbeare my breakfast but two minutes longer, my guts will shrinke into minikins. 1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 64 Yet Servants knowing Minikin nor Base, Are still allow'd to fiddle with the Case. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 18 Mar. (1974) VIII. 119 Mr. Cæsar told me a pretty experiment of his, of Angling with a Minikin, a gut-string varnished over. 1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 65 Be carefull to get Good Strings, which would be of three sorts, viz. Minikins, Venice-Catlins, and Lyons. 1721 C. King Brit. Merchant I. 284 Lutestrings Catlings..Minikings. 1910 F. W. Galpin Old Eng. Instruments of Mus. 43 They were all of gut, and the smaller, or ‘minnikins’, were very fragile and easily broken. 1976 Early Music 4 433/1 More uniform treble strings were available from Munich from Capirola's time... They were called ‘minikins’ in England and were very expensive. < as lemmas |
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