harpsichord

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a keyboard instrument in which pressing a key plucks a string, producing a bright, crisp tone

   She played the baroque suite on a harpsichord.

Borrowed in the early seventeenth century through French harpechorde and New Latin harpichordium, combining words for harp and string. The inserted s in the modern English spelling became established later in the seventeenth century.

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