† clariˈcymbal Obs.
Forms: 6 claricimbal(le, -cymbal(le, -simbal, -symbal, clarycymbal, -symball.
[A perverted form of clavicymbal: cf. clarichord.]
= clavicymbal.
| 1502 in Antiq. Repert. II. 310 in Rimbault Pianof. (1860) 43 Twelve ladies had claricordis, claricymballs, and such other. 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. xvi. xi, There sat dame Musyke, with all her mynstrasy..Cymphans, doussemers, wyth claricimbales glorious. 1535 Goodly Primer Ps. cl, Praise him with soft clarycymbals. 1555 Eden Decades W. Ind. 230 Musicall instrumentes as clarisimbals, lutes, gyterns. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Claricymbal, see Clavecymbal. |