单词 | zither music |
释义 | > as lemmaszither music C1. General use as a modifier, and with verbal nouns and participles forming compounds in which zither expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in zither music, zither player, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > zither player zither player1850 zitherist1866 guslar1891 1850 J. von Tautphœus Initials I. iv. 101 The untutored singers and zither players. 1881 W. Black Sunrise I. iii. 43 He was passionately fond of zither music. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. vi. 215 He is playing..on a kind of zithern-harp. 1949 Illustr. London News 17 Sept. 428/1 We see the title and all the credits through a pattern of vibrating zither-strings. 1982 C. McIntosh Swan King viii. 83 A fun-loving, zither-playing, somewhat bohemian character. 1992 N.Y. Times 12 Feb. c15/4 A macabre replay of the Carol Reed-Graham Greene thriller [sc. The Third Man]..with its zither music, Ferris wheel and a mad doctor. < as lemmas |
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