单词 | nightingale pipe |
释义 | > as lemmasnightingale pipe nightingale pipe n. now historical a type of organ pipe producing a tremolando effect (see quot. 1626). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > other pipes pipette?a1475 nightingale pipe1626 Picco pipe1856 ocarina1877 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §172 In Regals (where they have a Pipe, they call the Nightingale-Pipe, which containeth Water) the Sound hath a continuall Trembling. 1752 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 86 Donnellan is tuning her nightingale pipes. 1836 G. Almar Rover's Bride i. i. 9 Oh, that be the nightingale pipe of Mrs. Alice, singing like a wood-lark in the morning;—she be up and stirring already. < as lemmas |
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