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philomel en · NOUN

Etymology

From philo- + mel(os).

Meanings

1. (poetic) The nightingale.
   • And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings. 1713, Anne Finch, A Nocturnal Reverie:
   • And Philomel becometh dumb. 1600, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd:
   • As Philomel in summer's front doth sing. 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
2. A musical instrument similar to the violin, but having four steel-wire strings.

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