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lute

1   [loot] noun, verb, lut·ed, lut·ing.
noun
1.
a stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back.
verb (used without object)
2.
to play a lute.

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verb (used with object)
3.
to perform (music) on a lute: a musician skilled at luting Elizabethan ballads.
4.
to express (a feeling, mood, etc.) by means of a lute: The minstrel eloquently luted his melancholy.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Middle French, Old French < Old Provençal laut < Arabic al ʿūd literally, the wood
Example Sentences
  • There is something endearing about the contradictions embodied in the lute.
  • The national instrument is the rubab, a short-necked plucked lute with sympathetic strings.
  • He also maintained a family group during these years, singing traditional songs to the accompaniment of the xalam spike lute.
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lute

2   [loot] noun, verb, lut·ed, lut·ing.
noun
1.
luting.
verb (used with object)
2.
to seal or cement with luting.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin lutum, special use of Latin lutum mud, clay

lute

3   [loot] noun, verb, lut·ed, lut·ing.
noun
1.
a paving tool for spreading and smoothing concrete, consisting of a straightedge mounted transversely on a long handle.
verb (used with object)
2.
to spread and smooth (concrete in a pavement) with a lute.
Origin:
1870–75, Americanism; < Dutch loet
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lute1 (luːt)
 
—n
an ancient plucked stringed instrument, consisting of a long fingerboard with frets and gut strings, and a body shaped like a sliced pear
 
[C14: from Old French lut, via Old Provençal from Arabic al `ūd, literally: the wood]

lute2 (luːt)
 
—n
1.  Also called: luting a mixture of cement and clay used to seal the joints between pipes, etc
2.  dentistry a thin layer of cement used to fix a crown or inlay in place on a tooth
 
—vb
3.  (tr) to seal (a joint or surface) with lute
 
[C14: via Old French ultimately from Latin lutum clay]

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lute
late 13c., from O.Fr. lut, from O.Prov. laut, from Arabic al-'ud, the Arabian lute, lit. "the wood" (source of Sp. laud, Port. alaude, It. liuto), where al is the definite article.
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