regal
IPA: rˈigʌɫ
noun
- (music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
- (music) An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.
adjective
- Of or relating to royalty.
- Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
- Befitting a king, or emperor.
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Examples of "regal" in Sentences
- What makes you regale
- The story regaled me a lot.
- The regal mosque built by a brave man.
- Jim would regale the young apprentices.
- Regale us with your conventional wisdom.
- Domingo sings with regal, unforced beauty.
- Regale in this context means a royal prerogative.
- A regal restatement of the theme closes the movement.
- They're not entitled to regale me with their fantasies.
- In 1938 the entrance was widened, and the regal pavilion constructed.
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