veena

plural veenas · alternative vina

1. entertainmentA plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.

   Shanmugavadivu continued to earn her income through her veena performances, and by introducing her daughters to the stage as soon as they were able.

   2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 375

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   When he wanted to test any of the principles he was enunciating or elucidating, he went over to the veena which sits in a glass case now and played for hours and substantially extended the vocabulary and scope of the instrument.

   1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 339