ribible
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ribible (plural ribibles)
- (obsolete) A ribibe or rebec.
- 1853, Canon Daniel Rock, chapter 10, in The Church of Our Fathers, volume 3:
- (469) […] these gleemen […] not only played on harp and sytol, rote, sawtry, and ribible, but sang hymns to heaven in praise of the saint whose remains lay enshrined before them.
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- “ribible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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ribible (plural ribibles)
- ribible
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Cokes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Al konne he pleye on gyterne or ribible.
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