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rigole

rigole is the alternative form of regal.

Meaning of regal

Noun

regal (plural regals)

  1. A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
  2. An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.

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Forms of rigole

pluralrigoles

Questions about rigole

What is rigole the alternative form of?
Rigole is the alternative form of regal.

Words near rigole in the dictionary

  1. rigmarolish
  2. Rignall
  3. Rigney
  4. Rigneys
  5. rigol
  6. rigole
  7. rigoles
  8. rigolet
  9. rigolets
  10. rigolette
  11. rigolettes

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