harp
horp
- n a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
- n a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
- n a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
- v come back to
She is always harping on the same old things - v play the harp
She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully
- Robert Maxwell, 28, is one of the top supper-club attractions in Manhattan just now because 1) he learned to play the harp in a good school (Juilliard) and 2) he soon got tired of .
- In a bright green bathrobe with a golden harp between the shoulderblades, Jimmy McLarnin, lightweight, climbed into a roped square in Madison Square Garden.
- In shadowy halls and at the gates of cities, under thatch, under rafter or with no roof but their caps between them and the gaping pocket of night, men played the harpprinces,.