viola d'amore

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   viol that is the tenor of the viol family

   Broaderviol

Questions about viola d'amore

What does viola d'amore mean?

viola d'amore means "viol that is the tenor of the viol family".

Is viola d'amore a common word?

viola d'amore is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.