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Rebec   Listen
noun
Rebec  n.  
1.
(Mus.) An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow. (Written also rebeck) "He turn'd his rebec to a mournful note."
2.
A contemptuous term applied to an old woman. (Obs.)





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"Rebec" Quotes from Famous Books



... peasant woman. He shivered at a snowstorm by Mieris; he seemed to take part in Salvator Rosa's battle-piece; he ran his fingers over a tomahawk form Illinois, and felt his own hair rise as he touched a Cherokee scalping-knife. He marveled over the rebec that he set in the hands of some lady of the land, drank in the musical notes of her ballad, and in the twilight by the gothic arch above the hearth he told his love in a gloom so deep that he could not read his answer ...
— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac


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