Pandean

American  

[pan-dee-uhn, pan-dee-uhn] / pænˈdi ən, ˈpæn di ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the god Pan.

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Pandean British  

/ pænˈdiːən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the god Pan

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Etymology

Origin of Pandean

1800–10; Pan + -d- (< ?) + -e- (< Latin -ae ( us )) + -an

Example Sentences

Sounds of alguja, a kind of Pandean pipe with seven openings, struck our attention; their music was wafted by the wind quite distinctly from somewhere in the wood.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

In one of them the Pandean band is placed, and in the other the Scotch band.

From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)

Another conceit in the form of a Sphinx or Pandean pipe has been attributed to Theocritus—perhaps without good foundation.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

These usually play upon one or two violins, a mandoline, and the Pandean pipes.

From Roumania Past and Present by Samuelson, James

Progress has banished those Pandean spirits from the woodlands, but the moon is the mother of magic, and her children steal out, furtive, half fearful, when she raises her lamp as of old.

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax