Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 175

Le luthier de Crémone et Le trésor, 1920

43 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1Vocabulary
3livre, m., book.
4logis, m., lodging; au —, at home, 30.
5loin, far; au —, afar; bien —, "far, far away," 568; de —, from a distance, from far.
6lointain, —e, distant.
7lombard, —e, Lombard (i.e. North Italian).
8Londres, m., London.
9long, longue, long; de — en large, up and down, T. 201; tout au —, at full length, T. 598.
10longtemps, long time, long; depuis —, since long ago.
11longue, see long.
12lorsque, when.
13Louvre, m., Louvre (Castle), T. 144.
14loyal, —e, loyaux, loyal.
15loyauté, f., loyalty.
16lu, —e, see lire.
17lui, he, him, himself, to him, her, to her, it; — . . . le (la, les), his, her; — . . . des, from his, 594.
18lui-même, himself.
19lumière, f., light.
20lundi, m.: le —, on Mondays, 31.
21luth, m., lute.
22lutherie, f., stringed-instrument manufacture; atelier de —, shop for making stringed instruments.
23luthier, m., stringed-instrument maker; patron —, employer in a shop for making stringed instruments.
24lutte, f., contest, emulation, 153, 213.
25lyrique, lyric.
26lys, m., lily.
27m', for me.
28ma, f., my; see mon.
29machinal, —e, machinaux, mechanical.
30maçon, m., mason.
31magistral, —e, magistraux, commanding.
32main, f., hand; à pleines —s, by handfuls.
33mainte, many a (an).
34maintenant, now.
35mais, but, why! e.g. T. 304.
36maison, f., house, business, firm; — commune, city-hall, 101.
37maître, m., master; — de chapelle, chapel-master, "first violin."
38maîtresse, f.: — au logis, mistress in the house.
39majestueux, majestueuse, majestic.
40majorité, f., coming of age.
41mal, m., ill, harm, evil; avoir —, be ill, feel pain; faire —, hurt; un —, harm, T. 77.
42mal, bad, wrong, evil, unlucky, 35; pas —, "not

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