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- adjective music Resembling a
lute in form or sound
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ali Akbar Khan, the foremost virtuoso of the lutelike sarod, whose dazzling technique and gift for melodic invention, often on display in concert with his brother-in-law Ravi Shankar, helped popularize North Indian classical music in the West, died on Thursday at his home in San Anselmo, Calif.
Ali Akbar Khan R.I.P 2009
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Ali Akbar Khan, the foremost virtuoso of the lutelike sarod, whose dazzling technique and gift for melodic invention, often on display in concert with his brother-in-law Ravi Shankar, helped popularize North Indian classical music in the West, died on Thursday at his home in San Anselmo, Calif.
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Her passage through the darkening air or the verse with its black vowels and its opening sound, rich and lutelike?
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Old men were playing a giddy fast dance tune on drums and lutelike instruments.
The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000
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Old men were playing a giddy fast dance tune on drums and lutelike instruments.
The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000
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Old men were playing a giddy fast dance tune on drums and lutelike instruments.
The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000
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Her passage through the darkening air or the verse with its black vowels and its opening sound, rich and lutelike?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Her passage through the darkening air or the verse with its black vowels and its opening sound, rich and lutelike?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Her passage through the darkening air or the verse with its black vowels and its opening sound, rich and lutelike?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911
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But one of its best-received recent releases is "I Speak Fula," by Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, an ensemble that plays small lutelike instruments and sings in various West African languages.
NYT > Home Page By LARRY ROHTER 2011
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