Crossword-Solution: REBEC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rebec | n. | An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow. |
| Rebec | n. | A contemptuous term applied to an old woman. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with REBEC (5)
Nearer the castle, and bending their way towards it, marched a party of falconers with their well-trained birds, whose skill they had been approving upon their fists, their jesses ringing as they moved along, while nearer still, and almost at the foot of the terrace wall, was a minstrel playing on a rebec, to which a keeper, in a dress of Lincoln green, with a bow over his shoulder, a quiver of arrows at his back, and a comely damsel under his arm, was listening.
How many people must be like Saint-Gueltas, like Count de Sauvieres, like Rebec! and even like Henri, although the models are rarer.
And on that day, to the rebec gay They frolicked with lovesome swains; They are gone, they are dead, in the churchyard laid, But the tree--it still remains.
They divided into two classes--the viol proper, with flat back and breast and indented sides, to which belonged the veille, videl, or as it has been called, guitar-fiddle, and the pear-shaped type, such as the gigue and rebec.
While Gasparo was founding the so-called Brescian school, Andrea Amati (1520-1580), a viol and rebec maker of picturesque Cremona, began to make violins, doubtless to fill the orders of his patrons.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 92 times in crossword archives (1949–2015).