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单词 serinette
释义

serinetten.

Brit. /ˌsɛrᵻˈnɛt/, U.S. /ˌsɛrəˈnɛt/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French serinette.
Etymology: < French serinette (1739) < serin canary (see serin n.) + -ette -ette suffix.
Now historical.
A small barrel organ originally designed for teaching cage birds to sing.
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great organ1605
bird organ1745
serinette1772
euharmonic organ1811
physharmonica1838
harmoniphon1839
seraphine1839
pyrophone1873
string organ1876
orguinette1881
orchestrelle1897
1772 J. R. Forster tr. L.-A. de Bougainville Voy. round World i. vii. 113 He played a sonata, and I thought I heard the strained sounds of a serinette.
1858 London Jrnl. 27 Feb. 408/3 There are puppet-shows, and performances on the accordion, and the serinette in the subterranean passage.
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 381/1 The historian of St. Paul's Bay records that a few years ago this church was furnished with a harmonium, ‘which replaced advantageously a “serinette” (or hand-organ)’.
1934 Musical Q. 20 18 Little organs..so-called Serinettes (canary-bird pipes), with high tones, were first introduced in the 18th century for the purpose of teaching melodies to the song-birds.
1962 Times 22 June 14/6 Before the invention of the merline and serinette, birds were taught either by the unaided human whistle or by the specially designed, slender, and soft-toned flageolet.
2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. b7 An animated musical ring of 1810 featuring a tiny woman playing a serinette.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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