Meanings of rebec in English

Next came the minstrels, playing merrily on tabor, fife, sacbut, rebec, and tambourine.

It was Rizzio's skill upon the rebec that had first attracted Mary's attention.

The following were the names of the instruments: cittern, bagpipe, clarion, rebec, psaltery, syrinx, sackbut, regals, gittern, shalm, timbral, and cymbals!

At this instant the united sound of the lofty harp, the melodious rebec, and the chearful pipe, summoned them once again to the plain.

How many people must be like Saint-Gueltas, like Count de Sauvieres, like Rebec!

Is it Rebec-isit Miss West you are alluding to?

There was plenty of singing, and the violins and rebecs, flutes, and reed-pipes were never silent.

At Mother Rebec's, with you to-night, I drank some for the second time in my life.

Some of the latter grisly shapes were playing on tambours, others on psalteries, others on rebecs-every instrument producing the strangest sound imaginable.

Very well, then, let 's go to Mother Rebec's tavern at Corlay, the sign of 'The Dawn'- aprettysign, but a poor lodging.

(1) Three-stringed viol or rebec.