rebec
/ˈriːbɛk
/(also rebeck)
noun
A medieval stringed instrument played with a bow, typically having three strings.Viols, rebecs, citterns, lutes, and wooden flutes help....
- The moment these records first appeared, pop groups were experimenting with sackbuts, rebecs and crumhorns.
- For example, they did not often gather together with harps and rebecks to celebrate their national glories, or to hymn their national heroes.
Origin
Late Middle English: from French, based on Arabic rabāb.
- somnambulist
- somnambulistic
- somnambulistically
- somniferous
- somnific
- somnolence
- somnolency
- somnolent
- somnolently
- somoni
- Somoza
- so much as
- so much for
- so much so that
- so much the better (or worse)
- so much the worse for ——
- son
- sonar
- sonata
- sonata form
- sonatina
- sonde
- Sondheim, Stephen
- sone
- so near and yet so far