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fiddlebows

fiddlebows is the plural of fiddlebow.

Meaning of fiddlebow

Noun

fiddlebow (plural fiddlebows)

  1. A bow used to play the fiddle.
    • Some day some Gnome will steal his fiddlebow, / Or crack the stretched strings of his violin, / And hang him with them from thy windowed leaves / For all thy Flowers to gape at.1910, Madison Cawein, “The Shadow Garden, A Phantasy”, in The Shadow Garden (A Phantasy) and Other Plays, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, scene II, page 30
    Synonyms:
    fiddlestick

Questions about fiddlebows

What is fiddlebows the plural of?
Fiddlebows is the plural of fiddlebow.

Words near fiddlebows in the dictionary

  1. fiddle-faddling
  2. fiddle-footed
  3. fiddleback
  4. fiddlebacks
  5. fiddlebow
  6. fiddlebows
  7. fiddled
  8. fiddled about
  9. fiddled around
  10. fiddled away
  11. fiddled while Rome burned

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