SERAPHINE

Etymology

Proper noun

Seraphine

A female given name from Latin.

Anagrams

• Hesperian, hesperian

Noun

seraphine (plural seraphines)

(music) An early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.

Anagrams

• Hesperian, hesperian

Source: Wiktionary


Ser"a*phine, n. Etym: [From Seraph.] (Mus.)

Definition: A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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