Crossword-Solution: GEIGE
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| Violin: Ger. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
EEROTLC
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with GEIGE (5)
The representation we have of the instrument certainly conveys the idea of its having been a progenitor of the Rebec of the French, the Ribeca of the Italians, and the Fithele and the Geige of the Germans.
The earliest information we have of the use of the Geige in France is in connection with the Jongleurs.
Lacroix says, it disappeared, leaving its name "as the designation of a joyous dance, which for a considerable period was enlivened by the sound of the instrument." The word Geige, I am inclined to think, is important as furnishing evidence of historical value in relation to the ancestry of the Violin.
Lacroix believes that Germany created the Geige; other authorities are of opinion that it originated among the people of Provence.
Some inquirers derive the word Geige from the French and Italian words for leg of mutton.[18] Wigand, however, supposes it to be derived from the old northern word _Geiga_, meaning trembling, or from _Gigel_, to quiver.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1964).