"'cello" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1858 March 13th, Dwight’s Journal of Music (compiled book publication), volume XII, page 396",
          "text": "The Octet is a very brilliant composition for a double quartet, i. e. four violins, two violas, and two ‛celli, — a small symphony in fact."
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          "ref": "1930, The Musical Times, issue 71, page 126, column 2",
          "text": "The composer appears to have envisaged players of varying degree of ability, and the first ‛cello gets the cream."
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        "(dated) Alternative form of cello (“string instrument”)."
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      "rhymes": "-ɛləʊ"
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  "word": "'cello"
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        },
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          "ref": "1930, The Musical Times, issue 71, page 126, column 2",
          "text": "The composer appears to have envisaged players of varying degree of ability, and the first ‛cello gets the cream."
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