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Definition of Harps
1. harp [v] - See also: harp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harps
Literary usage of Harps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The Egyptian harps, both the stationary upright and the portable, ... Both distinctly
exhibit the characteristic features of all harps: the strings run ..."
2. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"What has become of the harps of 1782 and 1792 ? A harp of 1509. ... harps of the
eighteenth century : the one in the possession of Sir Hervey Bruce ..."
3. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"In noticing the harps of a tomb at Thebes*, Bruce makes the following remark,
... The tomb in which the harps described by Bruce are painted, ..."