psaltery
/sawl-tuh-ree/US // ˈsɔl tə ri //UK // (ˈsɔːltərɪ) //
诗乐,诗琴,诗乐乐,诗班
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural psal·ter·ies.
- : an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- : the Psalter.
Examples
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
Psal′tery, a stringed instrument used by the Jews: psalter; Psal′tress, a woman who plays upon the psaltery.
It was in a Psaltery on which a hundred years before some Flemish monk had lavished his gold and vermilion.
A psaltery, made by Thomas Perry, in Dublin, second half of eighteenth century.
With his glance upon the psaltery stick, a dim notion of accounting filtered curiously into his mind and became obsessional.
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