The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare


regal

regal,
a portable reed organ with a raucous sound; some, known as ‘bible regals’, could be folded to look like a giant book. Indicated in Richard Edwards's comedy Damon and Pithias (1564).

Jeremy Barlow

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