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seraphine

seraphine noun: an early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.

Noun

seraphine (plural seraphines)

  1. An early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.

Proper noun capitalized: Seraphine

Seraphine

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • By the time I carried tea and toast back through to Ruth, the baby was asleep, the umbilical cord tied off, and Ruth was stroking the tiny face with one finger. 'I'm going to call her Seraphine,' she said. 'She looks like an angel.'2018, Emma Rous, The Au Pair: A spellbinding mystery full of dark family secrets, Hachette UK, →ISBN

Forms of seraphine

pluralseraphines

Origin of seraphine

Anglicized spelling of French Séraphine.

Questions about seraphine

What does seraphine mean?
Seraphine means an early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.
What part of speech is seraphine?
Seraphine can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of seraphine?
The plural of seraphine is seraphines.

Words near seraphine in the dictionary

  1. seraphicness
  2. seraphim
  3. seraphims
  4. seraphin
  5. Seraphina
  6. seraphine
  7. seraphines
  8. seraphins
  9. seraphlike
  10. seraphs
  11. seraphsid

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