lyre

[ US /ˈɫaɪɹ/ ]
[ UK /lˈa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
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How To Use lyre In A Sentence

  • The lyrebird of Australia imitates other birds - and other sounds as well.
  • These include harps, lyres, whistles, horns, pan-pipes, bones, psalteries and some form of drum.
  • After the battalion commanded by Gyges, there came young boys crowned with myrtle-wreaths, and singing epithalamic hymns after the Lydian manner, accompanying themselves upon lyres of ivory, which they played with bows. King Candaules
  • He brought these things, with his own score of his music, in a purple cloth bag which Ortensia had worked for him, and she had embroidered a lyre on it in silver thread, with the word 'Harmonia' in cursive letters for a motto. Stradella
  • Many of the riffs are righteously medieval in tone, but they rework those tripping arpeggios for a scorched-earth rock setting, without a lute, zither or lyre within earshot.
  • The word barbiton was frequently used for the lyre itself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
  • Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish.
  • Yes, there is, and some people may not realise that yes, that there was an ancient constellation of the lyre, which was originally called the Lyre of the Pleiades.
  • A beautifully decorated lyre from Ur depicts similar figures in lapis lazuli and shell.
  • The Australian lyrebird is the greatest mimic of the bird world. Times, Sunday Times
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