Definitions for rebec

rebec re·bec

Spelling: [ree-bek]
IPA: /ˈri bɛk/

Rebec is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in rebec (bceer).

Definitions for rebec

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 of rebec

1745-55; Middle French; replacing Middle English ribibe Old French rebebe ≪ Arabic rabāb rebab

Examples for rebec

One of them is a rebec with three strings; the other is a small violin.

This rebab is an exact counterpart of the rebec formerly popular in Western Europe.

Mention is made of a rebec, attributed to Andrea Amati, dated 1546.

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.

Bonnivet, during his investment of Milan, had posted Bayard with a small corps in the village of rebec.

The rebec was not known in Arabia until nearly two centuries after we find the crwth mentioned by Venance Fortunatus.

It was Rizzio's skill upon the rebec that had first attracted Mary's attention.

Word Value for rebec
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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