lute
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Ms. Salvant’s 2023 release, “Mélusine,” included songs that dated back to the 12th century, sung in four languages, and made prominent use of the theorbo, the plucked lute used for Baroque basso continuo accompaniment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Franglen's creations included a long-necked lute, similar to a Turkish saz, with strings that represent the rigging of the Wind Traders' ship.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
For “Bound,” Huang turned to Vietnamese instruments, using both the đàn bầu, a type of lute, and đàn tranh, a type of zither.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
She’s fine with Edgin acting as the squad’s leader, the guy whose main weapons are a lute and speechifying.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023
I held out the lute, not knowing whether to thank him or apologize.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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I wouldn't trade the cramped, pol luted, noisy and ungovernable city for any purified and antiseptic community in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The articles are hermetically luted in an iron box, packed with nitrogenous and saline substances such as potash, bone dust, leather cuttings, and salt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Figure 31 shows a later type of box in which the edges can be easily luted.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
The covers are then luted on and the pots placed in the furnace.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
He shall not open on the Sabbath a vessel the cover of which has been luted on.
From The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect by George Foot Moore
Dr Buckland says, "It is probable there was some aperture in the luting by which small insects found admission."
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
Now fit the whole pipe, bowl inverted, on to the under one, luting the edges of both well with clay.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson
As they were talking, in came one of the Khalif's maidservants and whispered him that they had heard a noise of singing and luting in Mehboubeh's chamber and knew not what this meant.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
Instances of nouns and adjectives employed as verbs are: pennanc’d, luting, passion’d, neighbour’d, syllabling, companion’d, labrynth, anguish’d, poesied, vineyard’d, woof’d, loaned, medicin’d, zon’d, mesh, pleasure, legion’d, companion, green’d, gordian’d, character’d, finn’d, forest’d, tusk’d, monitor.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
At first there came over only phlegm, afterwards a black oil, and then also a spirit arose, which he could noways condense, but it forced the luting, or broke the glasses.
From Coal and What We Get from It by Raphael Meldola
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