Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ribibe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small threestringed viol; a rebec.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A small three-
stringed viol ; arebec .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[9] The ribible is a three-stringed viol, often mentioned in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.
Letter 265 1797
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Musical instruments -- "giterne and ribible" -- were known and played upon.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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The swote ribible [18] dynning [19] yn the dell; 25
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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He could let blood, cut hair, and shave, could dance, and play either on the ribible or the gittern.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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I mean to consult Burneys History of Music [8] for the instrument of the 14th century. in Chaucer I for ever find the ribible [9] — but nothing else & no explanation of that. now tho I have used one word which nobody understands. the jazerent of double mail — I shall not take the same liberty with another. jazerina often occurs in the Guerras Civiles de Granada.
Letter 265 1797
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