Definition of "harpsichord" []

• A keyboard instrument whose strings are plucked by means of quills or plectrums. (noun)

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• ""The harpsichord was a wedding gift from a grateful employer, I suppose?""
• "Over the harpsichord was a portrait of the Colonel himself, painted before she was born."
• "But the mind was as clearly the result of the bodily organization as the music of the harpsichord is the result of the instrumental mechanism."