† ˈclarichord Obs.
Forms: 6 clary-, clericord(e, clare-, 6–9 claricord, 9 Hist. clarichord.
[A perverted form of clavichord. Littré has claricorde also as Fr., but without citation; Cotgr. has it only as the Eng. of clavessin. Whether the corruption was phonetic or graphic (r for v) does not appear: the erroneous form was probably associated with L. clarus, clear.]
= clavichord, q.v.
| 1502 [see claricymbal]. 1503 in Leland Collect. (1770) App. iii. 284 The kyng began before hyr to play of the clarychordes..and upon the said clarychorde Sir Edward Stanley played a ballade and sang therewith. 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. xvi. xii, Rebeckes, clarycordes, eche in theyr degre. 1514 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 49 My best clarycordis. 1547 Salesbury Welsh Dict., Organ danneu, a payre of clericordes. 1598 Florio, Monocordo, an instrument hauing manie strings of one sound, which with little peeces of cloth make distinct sounds, called claricords. 1751 Chambers Cycl., Claricord, or Manicord, a musical instrument in form of a spinett. It has 49 or 50 keys and 70 strings, which bear on five bridges. [1823 tr. Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) I. v. 128 The Jongleur..able to handle the claricord and guitar. 1878 A. J. Hipkins in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 366/2 During the Tudor period, frequent mention is found..of the clavichord, clarichord, and monochord; all three names seeming to be shared by one instrument, and that most probably the true clavichord.] |
b. attrib.
| 1577 Harrison England iii. xi, [Iron] of such toughnesse, that it yieldeth to the making of claricord wire. |
¶ Corrupted forms of this were claricall (clericall), claricoes, claricorn; also clarigold.
| 1598–1611 Florio, Grauicembalo, a musicall instrument, like our calricoes. 1599 T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 73 A muscike strange of new found Claricalls. 1611 Cotgr., Clavessins, claricords or claricols. 1626 Bacon Sylva §158 A Soft Body dampeth the Sound, much more than a Hard..And therefore in Clericalls, the Keyes are lined. 1692 Coles, Claricorn, Cler-, an instrument somewhat like a cymbal. [So 1724 in Cocker.] |