lutestring

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.

   “There goes Mrs. Roundabout, I mean the fat lady in the luteſtring trollopee. Betvveen you and I, ſhe is but a cutler's vvife. See hovv ſhe's dreſſed, as fine as hands and pins can make her […]”

2. isim A type of moth with a band-like marking across the forewing, of the former taxonomic family Thyatiridae, also, the band-like marking.

   “There are six hook-tips and 10 in the lutestring group, which was formerly treated as a separate family, Thyatiridae.”

3. isim The string of a lute.

   “More scrolls were wedged into the wall's pigeonholes, along with minature assemblages of circuitry and glass, a theramin wand, coils of lutestrings and ivory lute-keys, stacks of crystal discs, a broken gamelan.”