Spinet Definition

spĭnĭt
noun
A small upright piano of relatively low height.
Webster's New World
An early, small variety of harpsichord with a single keyboard.
Webster's New World
A small electronic organ of similar design.
Webster's New World

(obsolete) A spinney.

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Other Word Forms of Spinet

Noun

Singular:
spinet
Plural:
spinets

Origin of Spinet

  • Obsolete French espinette from Italian spinetta perhaps diminutive of spīna thorn (presumably so called because the strings of the original instrument were plucked with quills) spinel

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian spinetta.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin spinetum.

    From Wiktionary

Spinet Sentence Examples

  • Certain ancient stringed instruments were played with a plectrum or plucker made of the quill of a bird's feather, and the word has thus been used of a plectrum made of other material and differing in shape, and also of an analogous object for striking the strings in the harpsichord, spinet or virginal.

  • Common types of this classical musical instrument include the baby grand and the upright (or spinet) piano.

  • Chesapeake Bay itself is the drowned lower course of the Susquehanna river, to which the other streams mentioned were 1 The mechanism is described under Pianoforte and Spinet.

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