Usually means: Ancient stringed instrument, tortoise shell.
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  3. Chelys: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. chelys: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms

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noun:  The chelys or chelus (both meaning "turtle" or "tortoise"), was a stringed musical instrument, the common lyre of the ancient Greeks, which had a convex back of tortoiseshell or of wood shaped like the shell.


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