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
Jein even had the Vulcan lute played by Leonard Nimoy’s “Mr. Spock.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 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
My grip on the lute case was slippery from my sweating palms.
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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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
I obtained a few gallons of methylated spirit, which I poured into the cavity, just covering the body, and then I put on the lid and luted it down air-tight with putty.
From The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
It is of the form my master mostly uses—round, with a small neck and a narrow mouth, to be luted closely, without doubt.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
As he was about to pass luting through the entrance, Lysidice parted the curtains and entered the room.
From The Proud Prince by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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
Wine-stained moments on the wing, Moonlit hours go luting by, She who leads the flight of Spring Leads the midnight revelry.
From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng
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
Argoil: potter's clay, used for luting or closing vessels in the laboratories of the alchemists; Latin, "argilla;" French, "argile."
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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