Definitions for archlute

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archlute arch·lute

Spelling: [ahrch-loot]

IPA: /ˈɑrtʃˌlut/

Archlute is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 399 anagrams from letters in archlute (acehlrtu).

Definitions for archlute

noun

1. a lute with two pegboxes, one for the stopped strings and the other for the bass strings, which run outside the fingerboard.

Origin of archlute

1720-30; arch-¹ + lute¹, modeled on Italian archiliuto

Examples for archlute

I can read and write, and my mother taught me to play upon the archlute and to sing.

A fine reproduction of Lady Mary Sidney and her archlute faces the title-page of the book.

The archlute, or bass-theorbo, is the largest sized kind of the theorbo, or lute with a double neck.

There was also an archlute, which in its largest form—six feet in height—was known as the chitarrone.