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An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)

Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 153

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made with an oat-stalk {avcna 1 or a hollowreed {calamus); in the course of time it wasmade of ivory, bone, or the .shin-bones ofanimals; whence itsLatin name of TnsiA(q.v.). The Greekilute (aiilos) was heldlike a flageolet, and avibrating reed was in-serted into the moutli-])iece. The single… … Fig. 319. Flutings.

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