Meaning of lutestring | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. A type of moth with a band-like marking across the forewing, of the former taxonomic family Thyatiridae, also, the band-like marking.
   countable, uncountable
3. The string of a lute.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“There goes Mrs. Roundabout, I mean⟳ the fat lady in the luteſtring trollopee. Betvveen you and I, ſhe is but a cutler's vvife. See⟳ hovv ſhe's dreſſed, as fine as hands and pins can make⟳ her […]”

“Lord, I have⟳ ſuch a deal⟳ to do, I ſhall ſcarce have⟳ time to ſlip on my Italian luteſting.—VVhere is this davvdle of a houſekeeper?”

“A dressing chemise of Tiffany which she had on over a blue lutestring”

“There are six hook-tips and 10 in the lutestring group, which was formerly treated as a separate⟳ family, Thyatiridae.”

“A quartet of moths in the subfamily Thyatirinae, known collectively as lutestrings – of which the spring-flying Frosted Green and Yellow Horned are also members.”

“Other lutestrings (3 spp., each in its own⟳ genus [n/i]), which do not have⟳ black spot on forewing and lack the black dash on wingtip.”

“These specimens have⟳ the "lutestrings" of or, and the "figure⟳ of 80" characteristic of octogessima.”

“More scrolls were wedged into the wall's pigeonholes, along with minature assemblages of circuitry and glass, a theramin wand, coils of lutestrings and ivory lute-keys, stacks of crystal discs, a broken gamelan.”

“Seventeen shillings went on replacement lutestrings for Elizabeth herself. Her greatest pleasures were playing her lute or virginals, reading or sewing.”

“When, I say⟳, that the motion of an Object is imprest upon a Corporeal Organ, I would not have⟳ it understood that the motion, for example, of the Eye is only made there, but that it passess up to the Brain, from whence the Fibres of the Nerves, like⟳ Lutestrings in a Lute, are stretcht out to other Members.”

“Wondering how else he passed his time, Winifred surveyed the room again, this time without regard for the monetary value of the things she saw⟳. A box of lutestrings. Five songbooks. But no lute.”

“Henry VIII. and his daughters Mary and Elizabeth are said to have⟳ been good lutenists. The smaller gut strings, called by the pleasant name⟳ of minnikins, were easily broken, and a gift of lutestrings was considered a present⟳ fit for a queen, and one which the great Elizabeth did not disdain.”

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