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lute1 n (Music / Instruments) an ancient plucked stringed instrument, consisting of a long fingerboard with frets and gut strings, and a body shaped like a sliced pear [from Old French lut, via Old Provençal from Arabic al `ūd, literally: the wood] lute2 n 1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) Also called luting a mixture of cement and clay used to seal the joints between pipes, etc. 2. (Medicine / Dentistry) Dentistry a thin layer of cement used to fix a crown or inlay in place on a tooth vb (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) (tr) to seal (a joint or surface) with lute [via Old French ultimately from Latin lutum clay] Lute a flock of mallard. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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"You think she is too old, too sedate," Lute insisted. But listen, for it seems he is tuning a lute or guitar, and from the way he is spitting and clearing his chest he must be getting ready to sing something. Not tables, toilettes, wardrobes, or drawers, but on one side perhaps the remains of a broken lute, on the other a ponderous chest which no efforts can open, and over the fireplace the portrait of some handsome warrior, whose features will so incomprehensibly strike you, that you will not be able to withdraw your eyes from it. |
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