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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

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a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ.

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my parents had saved up enough to buy me a secondhand piano, a black Wurlitzer spinet with a scarred bench. It was the showpiece of our living room.

Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club, p.149 (1989)

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I had learned in my youth to play a little upon the spinet. Glumdalclitch kept one in her chamber, and a master attended twice a-week to teach her: I called it a spinet, because it somewhat resembled that instrument, and was played upon in the same manner.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)