单词 | violer |
释义 | violern. Now archaic. A player of the viol, in early use esp. one attached to the household of the king, a noble, etc.; a fiddler. Chiefly in Scottish use, and frequent in Scottish records and accounts of the 16th and 17th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > viol-player viol1540 violer1551 violistc1670 1551 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1913) X. 32 To the saidis violaris to by thame leveray. 1551–2 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1913) X. 67 Be the lordis compositouris speciale command to my lord governouris veolaris. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1338/2 An other statelie pageant..made by an other companie of the rhetoricians, called painters or violers. 1617 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 413/1 His Maiesties violeris that accompaneit the saidis knychtis to this burgh. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 369 James Johnstoun Violer, arraigned before the Magistrats of Edinburgh. a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 364 A Violer..was serenading in the night-time with his fiddle. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) Violars, certain practical musicians much encouraged in Provence during the twelfth century; and so named because they performed on the vielle and viol. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 491/2 At this period violars, or performers on the vielle or viol,..abounded all over Europe. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xii. 266 They have brought another violer upon my walk! 1825 W. Scott Betrothed xiv, in Tales Crusaders II. 287 I had forgot..the distance between an Armorican violer and a high Norman baron. 1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. iv. 57 Come, Master Violer, let us hear the notes of the catgut. 1931 M. Baring In End is my Beginning iv. 50 Her son was given..a band of four violars. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1551 |
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