Definitions

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  • adjective music Resembling a lute in form or sound

Etymologies

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lute +‎ -like

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    Vitro Nasu » 2009 » June 2009

  • 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 2003

  • Old men were playing a giddy fast dance tune on drums and lutelike instruments.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • Old men were playing a giddy fast dance tune on drums and lutelike instruments.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • Old men were playing a giddy fast dance tune on drums and lutelike instruments.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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