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  2. Spinet - Wikipedia

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    In earlier times when English spelling was less standardized, "spinet" was sometimes spelled "spinnet" or "spinnit". "Spinet" is standard today. Spinet derives from the Italian spinetta, which in 17th-century Italian was a word used generally for all quilled instruments, especially what in Elizabethan/Jacobean English were called virginals.

  3. Spinneret - Wikipedia

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    The spinnerets of an Australian garden orb weaver spider. Black spinneret of Phidippus adumbratus visible below red abdomen. A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect.

  4. Spinet desk - Wikipedia

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    A spinet desk is an antique desk with an exterior shape similar to a writing table, but slightly higher and is fitted with a single drawer under the whole length of the flat top surface.

  5. Oval spinet - Wikipedia

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    As in all harpsichords, the strings in the oval spinet are plucked by plectra suspended in jacks, thin vertical strips of wood. Each jack rises from the far end of its key, passes through a guiding register in the soundboard, and terminates adjacent to its assigned string, close enough for the bit of quill held by the jack - the plectrum - to pluck the string.

  6. Slim Pickens - Wikipedia

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    Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. [1] Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens took up acting, and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows.

  7. Textiles in folklore - Wikipedia

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    In pre-Dynastic Egypt, nt was already the goddess of weaving (and a mighty aid in war as well).She protected the Red Crown of Lower Egypt before the two kingdoms were merged, and in Dynastic times she was known as the most ancient one, to whom the other gods went for wisdom.

  8. Dorothy Spinner - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Spinner is a fictional character created by Paul Kupperberg, appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.She was a former member of the Doom Patrol with the ability to bring imaginary beings to life.

  9. Self-Portrait at a Spinet - Wikipedia

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    Self-Portrait at a Spinet (c. 1555) by Sofonisba Anguissola. Self-Portrait at a Spinet is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Sofonisba Anguissola, from c. 1555. It is held in the National Museum of Capodimonte, in Naples.