Crossword-Solution: PLECTRA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plectra | pl. | of Plectrum |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PLECTRA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Plucking parts of a harpsichord | 1 answer |
| Stringed instrument pluckers (Var.) | 1 answer |
| plural of plectrum - a guitar pick | 1 answer |
| HARPSICHORD, implement for playing | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLECTRA (5)
But they were the kind you would have expected Nero's soldiers to be, and the arms they carried were zithers and plectra, masks and buskins.
Implements less developed belong to a separate order of sound-producing contrivances, namely plectra, and may be described as permitting strumming by striking in place of twanging or twitching the strings.
Both in Spain and southern France accompanying instruments struck with plectra or twanged with the fingers were adopted at a very early period, and the people of those parts attained to a high state of proficiency--so much so indeed as to have rendered the cultivation of this description of music a national characteristic with them in the use of such instruments.
These erected scales act on the string like so many infinitesimal _plectra_ and thus produce in perfection the sustained sound attempted in a grosser manner by the tremolo of the mandoline.
The jacks have the early steel springs, and in 1885 traces were found in the instrument of original brass plectra, all of which point to a very early date.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2009).