Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobza
Literary usage of Cobza
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"... God invented the fluer and the bucium, but the devil invented the cobza, ...
accompanied, it may be, with a cobza or lute, beginning and ending with a ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1882)
"... God invented the finer and the bucium, but the devil invented the cobza, ...
are common family traits in the folk-rhymes of the world wher- * cobza. ..."
3. Studies in Folk-song and Popular Poetry by Alfred Mason Williams (1895)
"... from the name of their instrument, the cobza, or lute), of gypsies, of fortune
tellers ; she listened for them by death-beds, by cradles, at the dance, ..."
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