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Webster 1913 Edition


Seraphine

Ser′a-phine

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Noun.
[From
Seraph
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(Mus.)
A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

Definition 2024


Séraphine

Séraphine

See also: seraphine and Seraphine

French

Proper noun

Séraphine f

  1. A female given name, cognate to the English Seraphina.

Related terms

  • Séraphin