sennet

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This collar I made of old sacking sewed over with sennet, and I must say it was quite a success, for he would hold his head out as naturally to receive the collar as a beggar would hold out his hat for the reception of an alms The pigeons I brought with me and placed in the cote or tower soon departed or died; possibly they were killed by hawks or other birds, but that I never could discover.

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  1. noun A call on a trumpet or cornet signaling the ceremonial exits and entrances of actors in Elizabethan drama.
  2. noun Any of several barracudas, especially Sphyraena borealis, of the western Atlantic.

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  • The notes of a sennet are unknown. —  Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
  • This collar I made of old sacking sewed over with sennet, and I must say it was quite a success, for he would hold his head out as naturally to receive the collar as a beggar would hold out his hat for the reception of an alms The pigeons I brought with me and placed in the cote or tower soon departed or died; possibly they were killed by hawks or other birds, but that I never could discover. —  Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles
  • In the south, the officiating priest had a small image, "about eighteen inches long, resembling a peg with a carved head," which reminds one of the form commonly attributed to the teraphim The priest first bandaged a fillet of red parrot feathers under the god's chin, which was called his pahau or beard; this bandage was made of a certain kind of sennet, which was tied on in a peculiar way. —  Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
  • Let me not eat another cabin biscuit, he said, or he'd do to me what they always did to thieves:--drag them under the ship from one side to another, so that the barnacles would cut them (as he said) into Spanish sennet-work. —  Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
  • Four buglers on foot blow a sennet. —  Ulysses
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  1. Perhaps variant of signet.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. Also written sennit, senet, sennate, synnet, cynet, signet, signate: see signet, signate.
 

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