Meanings
comparative more violinlike · superlative most violinlike
- Resembling a violin or its sound.
IN 1927 The New York Times reported from Berlin about an astounding recent invention: a box with a brass rod and ring that, when the inventor moved his hands around them, produced a violinlike sound of “extraordinary beauty and fullness of tone.”
2007 January 21, Daniel J. Wakin, “From the Archives, Just for Theremaniacs”, in New York Times
Origin
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