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CLAVICYMBALUM

Volume 6 · 47 words · 1842 Edition

in Antiquity, a musical instrument of thirty strings. Modern writers apply the name to our harpsichords.

CLAVI VESTITUM were flowers or studs of purple, interwoven with or sewed upon the garments of knights or senators; but, for distinction, the former used them narrow, and the latter broad.