Definition of Dulcimore

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dulcimore

dulciana
dulcianas
dulcians
dulcification
dulcified
dulcifies
dulcifluous
dulcify
dulcifying
dulciloquy
dulcimer
dulcimerist
dulcimerists
dulcimerlike
dulcimers
dulcimore (current term)
dulcimores
dulcin
dulcinea
dulcineas
dulciness
dulcite
dulcites
dulcitol
dulcitols
dulcitude
dulcitudes
dulcorate
dulcoration
dulcose

Literary usage of Dulcimore

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1897)
"of the ward of La Brea in the Island of Trinidad spinster of the first part, dulcimore Victor also of the ward of La Brea aforesaid laundress of the second ..."

2. The Kentucky Highlanders from a Native Mountaineer's Viewpoint by Josiah Henry Combs (1913)
"The dulcimore is a unique survival of antique musical instruments, ... The music of the dulcimore resembles that of the Scottish bag pipe, in that it is. ..."

3. Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments by Frederick Stearns, Albert Augustus Stanley (1921)
"DuLCIMORE Kentucky, United States This unique type, held by many to be indigenous to the mountain ... If so, the origin of the dulcimore is evident; or, ..."

4. Sir Richard Escombe: A Romance by Sir Max Pemberton (1908)
"Old dulcimore at Medmenham! He remembered now that Kitty's aunt had a house upon the road to ... No doubt Anthony dulcimore had gone there from London, ..."

5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"dulcimore. Harper. 119: 949-56. N. '09. Home-coming of Evelina. Putnam's. 6: 233-7. My. '09. Miles, Herbert E. Tariff, its revisers, and the trusts. ..."

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