nose flute
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Arquette, who has bought the rights to the story of Bozo the Clown and plans to make a film on the children's character, said his "clown thing" was playing the nose flute.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2022
Consisting of Mark Stewart and Rob Schwimmer, it specializes in instruments unlike anything you’ve ever heard: the nose flute, the slide-whistle organ, saxophones made of plumbing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
I could understand it if the festival was for ethnic Tibetan nose flute music or some other worthy-but-financially-precarious-venture, but for big-name comedy?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2012
Bamboo Jew's-harps and mouth flutes are played by the men, but the nose flute, so common in most parts of the Philippines, was not seen in use here.
From The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition by Cole, Fay-Cooper
Halaaniani came back and told his sister, and his sister said, "We have not won her with the trumpet; shall we try my nose flute?"
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren
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