Lute definition

Lute

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noun

(1) Chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard

(2) A substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid

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Etymology 1

From from , probably from , from (probably representing a or North African pronunciation).

Noun

A fretted stringed instrument similar to a guitar having a bowl shaped body or soundbox.

Related terms

archlute
lutanist, lutenist
lutherie
luthier
lutist

See also

barbiton, barbitos
guembri
guqin
mandola
mandolin

Noun

Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.

Verb

To fix or fasten something with lute.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 179:
  
  To protect everything till it dried, a man [...] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

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