Spinet vs. Virginal

Spinetnoun

(musical instruments) A short, compact harpsichord or piano.

Spinetnoun

(obsolete) A spinney.

Spinetnoun

A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.

Spinetnoun

A spinny.

Spinetnoun

small and compactly built upright piano

Spinetnoun

early model harpsichord with only one string per note

Spinet

A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ.

Virginaladjective

Being or resembling a virgin.

Virginaladjective

Uncontaminated or pure.

Virginaladjective

(zoology) parthenogenetic

Virginalnoun

(musical instruments) A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.

Virginaladjective

Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.

Virginalnoun

An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.

Virginalverb

To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.

Virginalnoun

a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries

Virginaladjective

characteristic of a virgin or virginity;

Virginaladjective

untouched or undefiled;

Virginaladjective

in a state of sexual virginity;