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violin
adjective
designating the modern family of stringed instruments played with a bow, characterized by four strings tuned in fifths, a lack of frets, a somewhat rounded back, and f-shaped sound holes
noun
the smallest and highest-pitched instrument of this family, held horizontally under the chin, resting against the collarbone; fiddle
See violin in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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