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rebecs

rebecs is the plural of rebec.

Meaning of rebec

Noun

rebec (plural rebecs)

  1. An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.
    • The villages also must have their visitors to enquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebbeck reads ev'n to the ballatry, and the gammuth of every municipal fidler, for these are the Countrymans Arcadia's and his Monte Mayors.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

Questions about rebecs

What is rebecs the plural of?
Rebecs is the plural of rebec.

Words near rebecs in the dictionary

  1. rebecks
  2. rebecome
  3. rebecomes
  4. rebecoming
  5. rebecomings
  6. rebecs
  7. rebed
  8. rebedded
  9. rebedding
  10. rebeds
  11. rebegan

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