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• Sir Anthony got out a lute and began to strum, pausing every so often to adjust the tension on the catguts.From the entry catguts
• Her greatest pleasures were playing her lute or virginals, reading or sewing.2011, Alison Weir, Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558, page 131. From the entry lutestring
• The gimbri or sintir is a three stringed rectangular lute from Morocco commonly used by Gnawan musicians.2010, RANDY RAINE-REUSCH, Play The World: The 101 Instrument Primer: The 101 World Instrument Primer, Mel Bay Publications, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry gimbri
• Above, a young Chinese child plays the p'i-p'a, a stringed instrument similar to a guitar or lute.2005, Gillian Houghton, China: A Primary Source Cultural Guide, Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 77. From the entry p'i-p'a
• Lute Springer halted as abruptly as if he'd been snared by a catchrope.1973, Richard Brister, Cat Eyes, page 23. From the entry catchrope
• The frets of the lute marked whole tones, while those of the guitar were a semi-tone apart.1916, “History of the Orchestra”, in Daniel Gregory Mason, editor-in-chief, Benjamin Lambord, editors, The Orchestra and Orchestral Music…. From the entry fret
• There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.1910, Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”, in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering, New York: Macmillan, published 1918, page 69. From the entry fording
• Playing the sintir (a long-necked, resonant lute), Mr.2007 January 12, The New York Times, “Rock/Pop Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry sintir
• Favorite instruments of the Mongolians of Xinjiang are the matouqin, the sihu, the sanxian or three-stringed lute and the topshur.1989, Ping Cheng, Xinjiang: The Land and the People, page 127. From the entry topshur
• He was a native of Cheng-tu and as a young man was famous for his skill at playing the lute.1971, Yin C. Liu, Tao Tao Sanders, “Chapter 10: Chinese Literature”, in David Marshall Lang, editor, A Guide to Eastern Literatures…. From the entry winehouse
• While trobairitz often played lutes, they might also sing while playing a harp, an instrument that women were often encouraged to master.2015, Gary Westfahl, A Day in a Working Life: 300 Trades and Professions through History, volume 1, page 658. From the entry trobairitz
• The most common stringed instrument is the ginbri, an African lute whose soundbox is covered in front by a piece of hide.2010, Daniel Jacobs, The Rough Guide to Morocco, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN. From the entry ginbri
• The colachon is an instrument with a body like the lute and a very long neck; its total length is about 1 ½ metres.1913, E. Nugues, H. C. Pouget, C. H. Martin, Practical Manual for the Piano and Harmonium Tuner. From the entry colachon
• The king holds up a hand to the lute player: ‘Thank you, leave us.’ The boy stuffs his music back into his budget and goes out backwards.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 364. From the entry budget
• Antwerp was world-famous for its harpsichords, but it was also a centre, in the 16th century, where citterns, lutes, viols and later violins were constructed with skill.2000, Musical Instruments Museum, Visitor's Guide, page 93. From the entry cittern
• Among other musical instruments in the north Pontic area of which we know from archaeological evidence, are the horns, shell-trumpets, trigonons (harps), Pan-pipes, lutes, and zithers.1959, George Vernadsky, The Origins of Russia, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 157. From the entry trigonon
• The countercast is articulated with the working cast, luted together, and mounted on a suitable articulator, providing access to the die stumps from the base of the cast.1955, Sebastian A. Bruno, “A One-Piece Fixed Bridge”, in The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, volume 5, number 3. From the entry countercast

Meaning of lute

1. noun A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
2. verb To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
3. noun Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.

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How do you use lute in a sentence?

Lute is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Sir Anthony got out a lute and began to strum, pausing every so often to adjust the tension on the catguts.”

What is a short sentence with lute?

“Playing the sintir (a long-necked, resonant lute), Mr.”

What does lute mean?

Lute means a fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.