Word: spinets
Category: spinets
Arts & Entertainment, Sports
Translations: spinets
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spanish
Translations:
espinetas, las espinetas, clavecines, espineta
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german
Translations:
spinette, Spinetten, Spinette, Spinettbau, Spinett
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french
Translations:
épinettes, des épinettes, les épinettes
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italian
Translations:
spinette
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portuguese
Translations:
espinetas
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dutch
Translations:
spinetten
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czech
Translations:
spinetů, spinety
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lithuanian
Translations:
spinetus
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romanian
Translations:
spinetele
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slovenian
Translations:
spineti
The meaning and "use of": spinets
noun
- a small harpsichord with the strings set obliquely to the keyboard, popular in the 18th century. - In the spinet , the strings run obliquely away from the player, producing a wing-shaped case, or a trapezoid case in smaller instruments.
- a type of small upright piano. - These baby baby grands and tiny spinets produce three octaves from hammers hitting metal rods.