curtel

English

Noun

curtel (plural curtels)

  1. (music) Obsolete spelling of curtal.
    • 1712 December 2, The Spectator‎[1], number 551, page 2:
      AN Entertainment by Mr. CLINCH of BARNET, who imitates the Flute, Double Curtel, the Organ with 3 Voices, the Horn, Huntfman and Pack of Hounds, the Sham-Doctor, the Old Woman, the Drunken-Man, the Bells: All Inſtruments are performed by his natural Voice.
    • 1725, Ned Ward, The Amorous Bugbears: Or, The Humours of Masquerade‎[2], page 19:
      Whilſt the Windy-Performers, to ſhew their mutual Induſtry, kept ſuch continual puffing at their Hoitboys and Curtels, that their Eyes ſtar'd like thoſe in the Sign of a Sarazen's-Head, and their cheeks look'd as plump as a Monkeys Alforges when they are ſtuff'd with Cobnuts, […]
    • 1734 August 20, Dublin Evening Post; republished as Brian Boydell, editor, A Dublin Musical Calendar, 1700–1760, Bury St Edmunds: St Edmundsbury Press, 1988, →ISBN, page 56:
      […] on Wednesday next, being the 28th of this Instant August, 1734. Will be performed a CONSORT OF MUSICK by the best MASTERS. Mr de Reck, plays a SOLO on the Hautboy and Curtel.

Middle English

Noun

curtel

  1. alternative form of kirtel
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