philomel

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English

Noun

philomel (plural philomels)

(poetic) The nightingale.
- 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:
  As Philomel in summer's front doth sing.
- 1713, Anne Finch, A Nocturnal Reverie:
  And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings.
- 1600, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd:
  And Philomel becometh dumb.
A musical instrument similar to the violin, but having four steel-wire strings.

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