lyre• She is rather like a lyricauthor herself, a bit of a lyre.• The allure of pipes, of a lute, of a lyre, a flute.• But this Eros had castaside his bow and cruelarrows; he sat playing a lyre!• Orpheus, using a lyre to charm the denizens of hell into giving him back his lady.• The minstrel drew sweet sounds from his lyre and waked in all the longing for the dance.• Davide, called by his father to the piano, took up a sheet and set it on the mahoganylyre stand.• They are Vega in the constellation Lyra, the lyre.
Originlyre
(1100-1200)Old Frenchlire, from Latinlyra, from Greek