Pandean
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Pandean
Example Sentences
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This was done in ancient as it is in modern times, by playing the Pandean pipes.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John
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
Always, while he was preparing some new trick, a man kept playing on the Pandean pipes, and beating a drum at the same time.
From The Pleasures of the Country Simple Stories for Young People by Myrtle, Harriet
Players and riders,—men and women,—clothed in gay raiments, rendered brilliant with spangles, paced backwards and forwards along their platforms to the sound of drums, organs, and Pandean pipes, cymbals, tambourines, and castanets.
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.
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)
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