单词 | a pair of virginals |
释义 | > as lemmasa pair of virginals b. a pair of virginals, in the same sense. (Cf. pair n.1 6.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > virginals virginal1530 a pair of virginals1542 virginal1566 triangle1663 virginet?c1680 muselar1965 1542 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 159 A paire of virginals. 1545 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 67 My best paire of virginalls. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iv. iii. 10 No, for she's like a paire of Virginals, Alwaies with Iackes at her taile. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 2 Sept. (1972) VII. 271 Hardly one lighter or boat in three that had the goods of a house in, but there was a pair of virginalls in it. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 93 The Dining-Room, where stood a pair of excellent Virginals . View more context for this quotation 1755 ‘T. Bobbin’ Let. in Toy-shop (1763) 152 You know I have a pair of rusty old Virginals in a Corner of the School, which have about eight Strings left out of forty five. < as lemmas |
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