Noun: clavier
| Singular | clavier |
| Plural | claviers |
Sample Sentences
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[…]play certain of the stops in octaves to each other, while merely touching single notes on the clavier [1870, A Description of the Grand Organ in the Town Hall, Leeds:]
Nouns inflected like clavier
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French clavier (“keyboard”), from Latin clavis (“key”). See: French Nouns '
clavier'.