Smoothed concrete in a pavement

• Sealed with clay
• Played an Elizabethan instrument
• Pilfered a string instrument?
• Strummed an old string instrument
• Played an old instrument
• Strummed, as a minstrel
• Accompanied a madrigal, maybe
• Played some dulcet tones
• Performed as a minstrel, maybe

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vb. (en-past of: lute )