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: a stringed instrument having a large pear-shaped body, a vaulted back, a fretted fingerboard, and a head with tuning pegs which is often angled backward from the neck
luted; luting
: to seal or cover (something, such as a joint or surface) with lute
: a substance (such as cement or clay) for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
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Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
The device features hundreds of sounds and samples from ye olden days, including lutes, hurdy-gurdies, and Gregorian chants.
—Time Staff, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
The painting depicts four women in dresses surrounded by a greenish fog as one of them plays the lute.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2024
Nathaniel Cox toggled throughout the night between his theorbo (an extremely long-necked lute) and the mythic-seeming cornetto, a hybrid of wind and brass, with the body of a flute (often made of either hardwood or bone) and the mouthpiece of a trumpet.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
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Noun
The eclectic band includes a poet, an opera singer, a violinist, a pianist and two people who play the bandura, Ukraine’s traditional 62-string instrument that looks a bit like an oversize lute.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
The device features hundreds of sounds and samples from ye olden days, including lutes, hurdy-gurdies, and Gregorian chants.
—Time Staff, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
The painting depicts four women in dresses surrounded by a greenish fog as one of them plays the lute.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2024
Nathaniel Cox toggled throughout the night between his theorbo (an extremely long-necked lute) and the mythic-seeming cornetto, a hybrid of wind and brass, with the body of a flute (often made of either hardwood or bone) and the mouthpiece of a trumpet.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
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“Lute.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lute. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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lute
noun
: a substance (as cement or clay) for packing a joint (as in laboratory apparatus) or coating a porous surface to produce imperviousness to gas or liquid
lute
transitive verb
luted; luting
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