请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 rebec
释义

rebecn.

Brit. /ˈriːbɛk/, /ˈrɛbɛk/, U.S. /ˈrɛbək/, /ˈriˌbɛk/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s rebecke, 1500s rebecc, 1500s rebek, 1500s rebyke, 1500s–1600s rebeke, 1500s– rebeck, 1600s rebbeck, 1700s rebbec, 1700s– rebec.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French rebec, rubebe.
Etymology: < Middle French rebec (1384), alteration (probably after bec beak n.1, on account of the shape of the instrument) of rubebe, rebebe ribibe n. Compare post-classical Latin rebeca (c1400), Old Occitan rebec , Portuguese rabeca (15th cent.; also rebeca (1720)), Italian ribeca (a1400). Compare earlier ribibe n.
Early Music. Now chiefly historical.
1. A musical instrument played with a bow and typically having three strings; an early form of the violin. Personified in quot. 1509.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > fiddle > early fiddles
crowda1310
ribiblec1330
rotec1330
ribibec1415
rebec1755
crwth1837
rotta1864
a1456 (a1426) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 675 (MED) He with his rebecke may sing ful offt ellas.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xvi. 61 There sate dame musyke, with all her mynstralsy..Rebeckes, clary cordes, eche in theyr degre Dyd sytte aboute theyr ladyes mageste.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxi. sig. Niiiiv Than began..taboures and rebeckes & other instrumentes.
1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 50 Syrenus did these verses sing, And on his Rebecke sweetely play.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania iv. 482 Vpon the top of this rising there was a Rocke, and on the top of that a young shepheard playing vpon a Rebecke, the Ayre playing with his curled locks.
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 34 When..the jocond rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid.
1729 A. Gordon Lives Pope Alexander VI. & Cæsar Borgia i. 181 Then came three Minstrels, two Kettle-drums, and a Rebec, which last was an Instrument very much used in those Days.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. ii. iii. 56 [A] young fellow..who..can read and write, and play upon the rebec.
a1788 R. Colvill Poet. Wks. (1789) ii. 18 Adown the vale, all on the margin green Of pastoral Tweed, the rural tribes are seen At pastime, as the jocund rebecks sound, How fleet their twinkling footsteps beat the ground.
1811 W. Scott Don Roderick xxv. 29 Far to Asturian hills the war-sounds pass, And in their stead rebeck or timbrel rings.
1848 S. W. Williams Middle Kingdom II. xvi. 169 The san hien, or three stringed guitar, resembles a rebeck in its contour.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 188 While round about the rebecks played.
1915 A. Dolmetsch Interpret. Mus. of 17th & 18th Cent. vii. 463 A little band consisting of a bass-viol, a tenor viol, a violin or rebec..and a flute.
1955 Times 20 May 3/5 A concert for children will consist of recorder and harpsichord pieces..and ‘French brawls’ for rebec and tambourin.
1988 Jrnl. Royal Mus. Assoc. 113 338 It devotes a chapter to each of six instrumental types..: rebec (i.e. any pear-shaped fiddle), crowd, medieval viol.., fiddle, Renaissance viol and trumpet marine.
2002 Ashmolean Spring 10 The lady in such scenes is often shown fondling a pet squirrel or dog, but the presence of her maid playing the rebec is unusual.
2. A player of the rebec, esp. in a group or ensemble. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > player of early fiddle
rotour1395
ribibourc1400
crowderc1450
rebec1540
crowd1607
1540 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xii. 241 Item, for Thomas Evans, Rebeke, wagis..xx s viijd.
1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue 25 Musicians and Players,..Rebeck: [£]28. 6. 8.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.a1456
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 9:05:17