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Definition of Fipples
1. fipple [n] - See also: fipple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fipples
Literary usage of Fipples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"Let there be a recorder made with two fipples, at each end one : the trunk of it
of the length of two recorders, and the holes answerable towards each end ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"Let there be a trial made with a double recorder, in which let there be two
fipples, at each end one. so as they may be played in unison : the hollow ..."
3. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"Whan bacon in the pan did crack, And gravie deep aroun' did sotter, Then Wull
his fipples red wad smack, He smell'd the imry hke an otter. ..."
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