Pandean
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Pandean
Example Sentences
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The first wooden flutes were doubtless the Pandean pipes, in which the tone was produced by blowing across the open ends of hollow reeds.
From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Henry Edward Krehbiel
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 Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese) Morse
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 Harriet Myrtle
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 John Leech
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 Sax Rohmer
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