Chanterelle

Chanterelle [Fr. chanter, to sing] (Fr.) (Ger.: Sangsaite; It.: cantino), the highest string of any chordophone having a neck. In France today the term is applied only to the E string of the violin, although the word has been in use there in the wider sense since the second quarter of the 16th c. (85, 127). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Godefroy, Frédéric. Dictionnaire de I'ancienne langue française. 1880–1902. Larousse de la musique. Paris, 1957.