| 单词 | viol d'amore or d'amour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasviol d'amore or d'amour b. viol d'amore or d'amour (see quot. 1786).Cf. viola d'amore (or †d'amour) at viola n.2 3. The French form viole d'amour is also occasionally employed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > viol > viola d'amore viol d'amore or d'amoura1684 viola d'amore (or d'amour)1724 violetta marina1786 a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1679 (1955) IV. 187 For its..novelty the Viol d'Amore of 5 wyre-strings, plaied on with a bow, being but an ordinary Violin, play'd on Lyra way..than which I never heard a sweeter Instrument. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 230 The psaltery, the viol d'amor, and other instruments. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Viol d'Amour, or Love Viol, a viol, or violin, furnished with six brass or steel wires, instead of sheep's-gut, and usually played with a bow. 1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 29 The viole-d'amour is peculiarly appropriate to chords of three, four, or more notes.] 1880 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant xxiii If you could accompany me for some months, with your viol d'amore, across the mountains. 1889 Daily News 25 Jan. 2/2 Two performers upon that once obsolete but recently revived instrument, the viol d'amore. < as lemmas |
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