Spinet

Definitions

1. A short, compact harpsichord or piano.
2. A spinney.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.”

“The invention was to have⟳ a Satyr lodged in a little spinet, by which her majesty and the prince were to come⟳”

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