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Answer for the clue "Duke Orsino's bride ", 5 letters:
viola

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Word definitions for viola in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context music English) A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone 2 (context music English) An organ stop having a similar tone 3 (context music English) A ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions [syn: genus Viola ] a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower

Usage examples of viola.

The small lyre was like the tenor viola di braccio and was called the lyra di braccio.

The accompaniment on the mellow lyra di braccio, one of the tender sisters of the viola, was a simplified version of the subordinate voice parts of the frottola.

When the weather got so cold that Tarzan began to shiver all night in the empty Armory, Viola gave him eleven dollars and he bought a bus ticket to La Cima, where, as might be expected, he had relatives.

Viola advice about returning to a newly husbandless house, I ask Freddie why she started hiding her birthmark again.

But that evening, although there were no guests except Harold Lind, who dined at the house, Viola appeared in a pink-tinted gown, with a knot of violets at her waist, and -- she wore the amethyst comb.

She was sure that Viola would laugh at her and insist upon her wearing it.

The lawn held a circular bed in its centre where Captain Viner tried to grow violas, and the slugs saw to it that his success was relative.

A case could be made for the viola to be a transposing version of the violin, except that, in the absence of frets, the built-in bias toward a certain key is minimal, and the instrument can thus be written as it sounds.

Roger Norland, Wardell Payne, Mark Pendergrast, Larry Pizer, Bernice Reagan, Ellen Reeves, Joe Reidy Roy Rozensweig, Harry Ruben-stein, Faith Davis Ruffins, John Salter, John Anthony Scott, Saul Schniderman, Barry Schwartz, Louis Segal, Ruth Selig, Betty Sharpe, Brian Sherman, David Shiman, Beatrice Siegel, Barabara Clark Smith, Luther Spoehr, Jerold Starr, Mark Stoler, Bill Sturtevant, Lonn Taylor, Linda Tucker, Harriet Tyson, Ivan von Sertima, Herman Viola, Virgil J.

Lady Sylvester Elmshade, Mrs Barbara Lovebirch, Mrs Poll Ash, Mrs Holly Hazeleyes, Miss Daphne Bays, Miss Dorothy Canebrake, Mrs Clyde Twelvetrees, Mrs Rowan Greene, Mrs Helen Vinegadding, Miss Virginia Creeper, Miss Gladys Beech, Miss Olive Garth, Miss Blanche Maple, Mrs Maud Mahogany, Miss Myra Myrtle, Miss Priscilla Elderflower, Miss Bee Honeysuckle, Miss Grace Poplar, Miss O Mimosa San, Miss Rachel Cedarfrond, the Misses Lilian and Viola Lilac, Miss Timidity Aspenall, Mrs Kitty Dewey-Mosse, Miss May Hawthorne, Mrs Gloriana Palme, Mrs Liana Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis graced the ceremony by their presence.

As we left, Chango said something to Viola in rapid Spanish, and she dropped a dish.

Chango and Viola went home to lunch, Chamaco met them there, Chango told me that afternoon.

Tarzan had put Chango in the hospital, Viola found out where he was hiding.

The ornaments, as usual, consist of sprays of ivy leaf and grounds filled in with treillages of natural flowers, among which are the daisy, viola tricolor, thistle, cornbottle, and wild stock.

The agent was still holding Viola in his embrace, his hands resting on her shoulders, but again, his gaze had darted toward the darkness into which Hugo Menzies had vanished.