dulcimers
dulcimers is the plural of dulcimer.
Meaning of dulcimer
Noun
dulcimer (plural dulcimers)
- A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
- A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw: / It was an Abyssinian maid / And on her dulcimer she played, / Singing of Mount Abora.1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, Courier Dover Publications, published 1992, →ISBN, page 59
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Questions about dulcimers
- What is dulcimers the plural of?
- Dulcimers is the plural of dulcimer.
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