Crossword-Solution: GEIGE
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| Violin: Ger. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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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).