[f. as prec. + STRING.] One of the strings on a fiddle, which by their vibration produce the sound. Also fig.

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1728.  Young, Love Fame, iii. (1757), I. 108.

        ’Tis done! with loud applause the council rings!
Fix’d is the fate of whores, and fiddle-strings!

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1732.  Arbuthnot, Air, iii. § 20. A Fiddle-string, moisten’d with Water will sink a Note in a little time.

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1835.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., I. 43. When the signor della casa has neither kind look nor word for me, what can I do but grow desperate, fret myself to fiddlestrings, and be a torment to society in every direction?

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1884.  E. Heron-Allen, Violin-making, II. xii. 210. The muscular or fibrous membrane [of the intestine], which is used in the manufacture of fiddle strings.

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