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| regal | |
| 1. adj. Of or having to do with royalty. |  |
| regal authority; the regal title | |
| 2. adj. Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress. | |
| 3. n. (musical instruments) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and | |
| 4. n. 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 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these stops took a multitude | |
