Obs. Forms: 6 claricimbal(le, -cymbal(le, -simbal, -symbal, clarycymbal, -symball. [A perverted form of CLAVICYMBAL: cf. clarichord.] = CLAVICYMBAL.
1502. in Antiq. Repert., II. 310 (Rimbault, Pianof. (1860), 43). Twelve ladies had claricordis, claricymballs, and such other.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XVI. xi. There sat dame Musyke, with all her mynstrasy … Cymphans, doussemers, wyth claricimbales glorious.
1535. Goodly Primer, Ps. cl. Praise him with soft clarycymbals.
1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind., 230. Musicall instrumentes as clarisimbals, lutes, gyterns.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Claricymbal, see Clavecymbal.
