英语词汇“curtal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

curtal

/ˈkəːt(ə)l

adjective archaic

Shortened, abridged, or curtailed: the curtal frock of sunbright cotton...

A ‘curtal [shortened] sonnet’ (G.M. Hopkins) consists of a sestet followed by a quatrain and a half-line tailpiece.

noun historical

A dulcian or bassoon of the late 16th to early 18th century.The result is a programme of genuine old fashioned carols, songs and dances, performed on shawms, sackbut, recorders, flutes, curtals, lutes, guitars, harp, bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy....

The lowest of the four orchestral woodwinds, it was developed from the Renaissance curtal or dulcian in the mid-17th century as part of the general reconstruction of all woodwind instruments that took place in France.
Anyone who blew you away with their chops on cornetto, curtal or theorbo?

Origin

Late 15th century (denoting a short-barrelled cannon): from French courtault, from court 'short' + the pejorative suffix -ault. In both English and French the noun denoted various items characterized by something short, especially an animal with a docked tail, which probably gave rise to the adjective sense.

单词	curtal
释义	curtal /ˈkəːt(ə)l / adjective archaic Shortened, abridged, or curtailed: the curtal frock of sunbright cotton... A ‘curtal [shortened] sonnet’ (G.M. Hopkins) consists of a sestet followed by a quatrain and a half-line tailpiece. noun historical A dulcian or bassoon of the late 16th to early 18th century.The result is a programme of genuine old fashioned carols, songs and dances, performed on shawms, sackbut, recorders, flutes, curtals, lutes, guitars, harp, bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy.... The lowest of the four orchestral woodwinds, it was developed from the Renaissance curtal or dulcian in the mid-17th century as part of the general reconstruction of all woodwind instruments that took place in France. Anyone who blew you away with their chops on cornetto, curtal or theorbo? Origin Late 15th century (denoting a short-barrelled cannon): from French courtault, from court 'short' + the pejorative suffix -ault. In both English and French the noun denoted various items characterized by something short, especially an animal with a docked tail, which probably gave rise to the adjective sense.
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