Pricksong

Word PRICKSONG
Character 9
Hyphenation prick song
Pronunciations N/A

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At Gloucester the Lady chapel is furnished with two galleries (with chantry chapels below) for the singing of "pricksong"; each is provided with a broad stone desk for the necessary books, thus differing from the choir where such accommodation was unusual and unnecessary, but few books being used there except on the lectern. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

_ I can sing pricksong, lady, at first sight; and why not be a courtier as suddenly? ❋ George Chapman (N/A)

The old ladies of the court avoid idleness by needlework, spinning of silk, or continual reading of the Holy Scriptures or of histories, and writing diverse volumes of their own, or translating foreign works into English or Latin; and the young ladies, when they are not waiting on her majesty, "in the mean time apply their lutes, citherns, pricksong, and all kinds of music." ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

---- One other pricksong book of vellum covered with a hart's skyn ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)

"_caul work_," (probably netting) "divers in spinningsilk, some in continual reading either of the Scriptures or of histories either of their own or foreign countries; divers in writing volumes of their own, or translating the works of others into Latin or English;" while the younger ones in the meantime applied to their "lutes, citharnes, pricksong and all kinds of music." ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)

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