The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seraphine \Ser"a*phine\, n. [From Seraph.] (Mus.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
Wiktionary
n. (context music English) An early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.
Wikipedia
The seraphine is an early keyed wind instrument, something of a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, being more similar to the former. It makes its sound via the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.
Séraphine is a 2008 French- Belgian film directed by Martin Provost and written by Marc Abdelnour and Provost. It stars Yolande Moreau as the French painter Séraphine Louis and Ulrich Tukur as Wilhelm Uhde. It won the 2009 César Award for Best Film.
Séraphine may refer to:
- Seraphine (musical instrument), 19c. keyboard instrument, an early version of the harmonium
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Séraphine Louis (Séraphine de Senlis, 1864–1942), French painter
- Séraphine (film) (2008), Franco-Belgian film about her
- Séraphine, a play by Victorien Sardou
- Séraphine (company), an international maternity fashion label and store
Séraphine is an international maternity fashion label and store. The company was founded by French-born designer Cecile Reinaud in 2002. Séraphine is based in London and has stores in the United Kingdom and United States. Its clothing is sold around the world through various boutiques and online.
The maternity label received worldwide attention when Kate Middleton was photographed in a Séraphine dress for the first official family portrait with Prince George. Séraphine has also been worn by celebrities such as Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani and Doutzen Kroes. In 2015, Séraphine received the Queen's Award for Enterprise, the United Kingdom's highest official accolade for businesses.
Usage examples of "seraphine".
Seraphine addressed herself to no vulgar Madame Rouche, but to an assistant of her own surgeon, Gaude, a certain Sarraille, who had a dingy den of a clinic in the Passage Tivoli.
Prematurely aged though she was, Seraphine, amid her growing insanity, continued to lead a wild, rackety life, and the strangest stories were related of her.
Morange hastily led Reine to the carriage, from which Seraphine did not alight.
And towards midnight, while they were chatting together in undertones, they were suddenly stupefied at hearing Seraphine raise her voice, after preserving silence for three hours.
Seraphine, having heard of these so-called cures, which the newspapers had widely extolled, had actually sought out the Benards and the Moineauds to interview Euphrasie and Cecile on the subject.