biniou
/ (binju) /
noun
a small high-pitched Breton bagpipe
Origin of biniou
1from Breton beniou
Words Nearby biniou
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How to use biniou in a sentence
The drone of the biniou is of boxwood, handsomely inlaid with tin, and has a single or beating reed hidden within the stock.
The sonneur de biniou is blind, and quite wrapped up in his art; he lives, as it were, in a world apart.
Brittany | Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy MenpesThe orchestra—two violins, a reed-pipe, a biniou, and a harp—were playing away with might and main.
Lorraine | Robert W. ChambersThe biniou is rather like a small bagpipe and produces a wild, shrill sound.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago | Anne Douglas SedgwickDuring the repasts a violinist and a biniou-player, dressed in his Breton costume, played to us.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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