lute
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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
Harpsichord and viola da gamba act as soloists as well as continuo; a modern lute song is a lullaby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 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
This object is about 18 lightyears away, located in Lyra, the minor constellation often depicted as a vulture carrying a lute.
From Salon ● May 17, 2023
But I saw how he stood with his arms slightly bent, ready to rush forward and whisk the lute away from me if the need arose.
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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Sibvu´tütük´mula A series of bottomless jars piled above each other, and luted together as a chimney-top.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
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
After packing the work carefully in the boxes the lids are sealed or luted with fireclay to keep out any gases from the fire.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
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
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
This lady of the luting tongue, The flash in darkness, billow's grace, For thee the worship; for the young In muscle the embrace.
From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith
The wind of vision died in my brain; and lo, The jangling of the caravan's long gait Was small as the luting of a breeze in grass Upon my ears.
From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
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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