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Definition of Spinnets
1. spinnet [n] - See also: spinnet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinnets
Literary usage of Spinnets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"Their name was probably derived from being used by young girls. They had, like
spinnets, only one wire to each note. Sir John Hawkins speaks of them as ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Their name was probably derived from being used by young girls. They had, like
spinnets, only one wire to each note. Sir John Hawkins speaks of them as ..."
3. The Musical World (1876)
"We print it as written, because, as he was on the spot, the name might have been
spinnets after all. But they never did this sort of thing in, our time.—ED. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... Haxby, the Harris family and others having made such "spinnets" during a period
for which we have dates from 1668 to 1784. ..."
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