banjo
noun
a musical instrument of the guitar family, having a circular body covered in front with tightly stretched parchment and played with the fingers or a plectrum.
banjoes
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pluralof banjo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The windows offered an assortment of everything from watches to banjoes and guns but among them I also noticed many carpenter's tools and so forth.
From One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by William Carleton
Dar wus a heap o' dancin' ter de music of banjoes an' han' slappin'.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
Art muslin and banjoes, Chinese lanterns and frying, are leading "notes," I find, in the impression of those who once knew such places well.
From In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Some of them had been sung to the banjoes round camp fires, and some had run as far down coast as Rangoon and Moulmein, and up to Mandalay.
