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Meanings of lutes in English

Class of musical instruments.

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        1
        They're just people who make lutes, or more commonly these days, violins.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The room thrummed to the sound of drums and pipes and lutes.
        Chaosbound
        3
        Sometimes several voices and lutes executed the same air in unison.
        History of the Moors of Spain
        4
        Thus dwelt Iranon in Oonai, the city of lutes and dancing.
        The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
        5
        I could go back to my Renaissance project with the lutes.
        Reuters
        6
        He tossed it to me, but lutes are not meant to be tossed.
        The Name of the Wind
        7
        Minstrels strummed lutes and played the pipes and banged on drums.
        Chaosbound
        8
        Most were carrying stringed instruments, harps, lyres, guitars, or lutes, all of silver.
        The Neverending Story
        9
        Musicians had appeared in the hall doorway, carrying sackbuts and lutes.
        Sovereign
        10
        But you will find no bears here, or lions, or lutes.
        The Wise Man’s Fear
        11
        The minstrels left off at playing their lutes, tambours, and drums.
        Brotherhood of the Wolf
        12
        Fiddles, lutes, and drums, everyone played and danced and sang as they wished.
        The Name of the Wind
        13
        Besides making violins, this eminent artist also made guitars, lutes, 'cellos and tenors.
        A Popular History of the Art of Music / From the Earliest Times ...
        14
        And now men appeared, grave and reverend in appearance, bearing lutes in their hands.
        Montezuma's Daughter
        15
        He thought no more about that examination of the lutes.
        Sunrise
        16
        Excellent provisions there are of tripe and palates; With singing to lutes, and with drums.
        The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry / From the Sacred Books of the...
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