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单词 celestinette
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celestinetten.

Forms: 1700s celestinet, 1700s celestinette, 1700s coelestinette.
Origin: Perhaps a borrowing from German, combined with an English element. Etymons: German coelestina , -et suffix1.
Etymology: Perhaps < German coelestina, used to denote various keyboard instruments involving strings (1742 or earlier; < classical Latin caelestis celest adj. + -ina -ine suffix4; perhaps so called as the instrument was thought to produce a heavenly sound) + -et suffix1. Compare English celestina, denoting a similar bowed keyboard instrument (1771 or earlier).
Obsolete rare.
(See quot. 1774.)
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > other stringed instruments > [noun] > hurdy-gurdy
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1774 H. Walpole Let. to W. Hamilton 19 June I heard a new instrument yesterday..It is a copulation of a harpsicord and a violin; one hand strikes the keys and the other draws the bow..The instrument is so small it stands on a table, and is called a Celestinette.
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