Word of the Day 05/16/22 Rebec
Rebec (noun)
rebec or re·beck [ ree-bek ]
NOUN
1. a Renaissance fiddle with a pear-shaped body tapering into a neck that ends in a sickle-shaped or scroll-shaped pegbox.
ORIGIN: 1745–55; < Middle French; replacing Middle English ribibe < Old French rebebe ≪ Arabic rabābrebab
HOW TO USE REBEC IN A SENTENCE
This rebab is an exact counterpart of the rebec formerly popular in Western Europe.
MUSICAL MYTHS AND FACTS, VOLUME I (OF 2)|CARL ENGEL
And it was so ready with refrains and lays and songs and new tunes, that harp, or viol, or rebec were as nought beside it.
TALES FROM THE OLD FRENCH|VARIOUS
It was Rizzio's skill upon the rebec that had first attracted Mary's attention.
THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT|RAFAEL SABATINI
Bonnivet, during his investment of Milan, had posted Bayard with a small corps in the village of Rebec.
A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES|FRANCOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME GUIZOT
Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.
rebec or re·beck [ ree-bek ]
NOUN
1. a Renaissance fiddle with a pear-shaped body tapering into a neck that ends in a sickle-shaped or scroll-shaped pegbox.
ORIGIN: 1745–55; < Middle French; replacing Middle English ribibe < Old French rebebe ≪ Arabic rabābrebab
HOW TO USE REBEC IN A SENTENCE
This rebab is an exact counterpart of the rebec formerly popular in Western Europe.
MUSICAL MYTHS AND FACTS, VOLUME I (OF 2)|CARL ENGEL
And it was so ready with refrains and lays and songs and new tunes, that harp, or viol, or rebec were as nought beside it.
TALES FROM THE OLD FRENCH|VARIOUS
It was Rizzio's skill upon the rebec that had first attracted Mary's attention.
THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT|RAFAEL SABATINI
Bonnivet, during his investment of Milan, had posted Bayard with a small corps in the village of Rebec.
A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES|FRANCOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME GUIZOT
Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.