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violer Now arch.|ˈvaɪələ(r)|
Also 6 Sc. veolar, 6– violar, 7 violler.
[ad. OF. violeur (AF. violour): see viol n.1 and -er1.]
A player of the viol, in early use esp. one attached to the household of the king, a noble, etc.; a fiddler.
Chiefly in Sc. use, and frequent in Scottish records and accounts of the 16th and 17th centuries.
1551Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. X. 32 To the saidis violaris to by thame leveray. 1551–2Ibid. 67 Be the lordis compositouris speciale command to my lord governouris veolaris. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1338/2 An other statelie pageant..made by an other companie of the rhetoricians, called painters or violers. 1617in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 413/1 His Maiesties violeris that accompaneit the saidis knychtis to this burgh. 1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. ii. iv. §1 (1699) 185 James Johnstoun Violer, arraigned before the Magistrats of Edinburgh. a1722Sir J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 364 A Violer..was serenading in the night-time with his fiddle. 1797Encycl. Brit. XII. 491/2 At this period violars, or performers on the vielle or viol,..abounded all over Europe. 1801Busby Dict. Mus. s.v., Violars, certain practical musicians much encouraged in Provence during the twelfth century; and so named because they performed on the vielle and viol. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xii, They have brought another violer upon my walk! 1825― Betrothed xxx, I had forgot..the distance between an Armorican violer and a high Norman baron. 1843James Forest Days iv, Come, Master Violer, let us hear the notes of the catgut. 1931M. Baring In End is my Beginning iv. 50 Her son was given..a band of four violars. |