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† tinternel Obs.
Also tyn-.
[Origin unascertained. (Cf. F. tinter to ring).]
? Some form of instrumental music. Hence † tinternelling a.
1575Gascoigne Adv. F.I. Wks. 210 Calling the musitions [he] caused them softly to sounde the Tynternall. Ibid. 218 His Mistres could not be quiet vntill she heard hym repeat the Tinternell which he had vsed ouer night. Ibid., She demanded secretly and in sad earnest, who deuised this Tinternell. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 69 The Virgins on their loud tinternelling Timbrils..should haue descanted on my praises. [1847–78Halliwell, Tinternell, the name of an old dance. (Hence in later Dicts. Authority for this statement is not given.)] |