spinet
English
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Italian spinetta.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editspinet (plural spinets)
- (music) A short, compact harpsichord or piano.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
- He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editshort, compact harpsichord
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editEtymology 2
editLatin spīnētum. Doublet of spinney
Pronunciation
editNoun
editspinet (plural spinets)
- (obsolete) A spinney.[1]
- 1603, Ben Jonson, The Entertainment at Althorp:
- The invention was to have a Satyr lodged in a little spinet, by which her majesty and the prince were to come
References
edit- ^ “spinet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editCzech
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editspinet m inan
Declension
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editFurther reading
editRomanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editspinet n (plural spineturi)
Declension
editDeclension of spinet
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) spinet | spinetul | (niște) spineturi | spineturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) spinet | spinetului | (unor) spineturi | spineturilor |
vocative | spinetule | spineturilor |
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