violinlike

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English

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Etymology

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From violin +‎ -like.

Adjective

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violinlike (comparative more violinlike, superlative most violinlike)

  1. Resembling a violin or its sound.
    • 2007 January 21, Daniel J. Wakin, “From the Archives, Just for Theremaniacs”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.”