Brewer's: Virginal

An instrument used in convents to lead the virginals or hymns to the Virgin. It was a quilled keyboard instrument of two or three octaves, common in the reign of Elizabeth.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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