ribibe
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See rebec. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ribibe (plural ribibes)
- (historical) A kind of stringed instrument; a rebec or an instrument similar to it.
- Synonym: ribible
- 1841, Maria Elizabeth Budden, True Stories from English History. Chronologically Arranged:
- Well, my friend, and where is your ribibe, or such like instrument, belonging to a minstrel?
- 1850, “Augustin, court musician to the emperor Maximilian I.”, in Hugh James Rose, editor, A New General Biographical Dictionary, volume 2:
- "The tones of lutes and ribibes [translating German Ribeben]
I have right masterly and fine As ordered by imperial might.
- 1880, Emil Naumann, translated by F. Praeger, The History of Music, volume 1, pages 258–259:
- The tone of the rubebe was similar to that of the lower register of the modern viola. As it possessed but two strings, however, its range was necessarily limited.
- 1911, Francis William Galpin, Old English Instruments of Music, page 81:
- The Rybybe is well portrayed among the Norman carvings of the twelfth century which adorn the south doorway of Barfreston Church in Kent (Plate XV).
- 1935, Mary Désirée Anderson, The Medieval Carver, page 86:
- Over the high-altar at Gloucester the bosses, which are foliated in the rest of the choir, represent angel-musicians, whose varied orchestra would have out-rivalled that of Nebuchadnezzar the King; harp, hutchet and psaltery; lute, clarion, shawm; bag-pipe, ribibe, gittern; bozine, symphony, cymbals; organ, tabor and timbrel, the very names ring in one's ears like the stately cadences of celestial music.
- 1937, Philip K. Hitti, History of The Arabs:
- The rebec or ribibe, a favourite instrument with Chaucer, may be counted as one of the precursors of our violin.
- 1938, Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur:
- The Persian hunting scene, the Arabian ribibi. Here, that is, in Janequin we find ground for one of the basic dissociations of music.
- (obsolete, derogatory) An old woman.
- (obsolete) A bawd; a prostitute.
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
- Or some good ribibe about Kentish Town or Hogsden, you would hang now for a witch