biniou

/ (binju) /

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noun

a small high-pitched Breton bagpipe

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Word Origin for biniou

from Breton beniou

Words nearby biniou

bingo card, Bing Xin, bingy, Binh Dinh, Bini, biniou, binky, bin Laden, bin Laden, Osama, bin liner, binman

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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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7|Various
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 Menpes
The orchestra—two violins, a reed-pipe, a biniou, and a harp—were playing away with might and main.
Lorraine|Robert W. Chambers
The biniou is rather like a small bagpipe and produces a wild, shrill sound.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago|Anne Douglas Sedgwick

During 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