bouzouki
noun
a long-necked, fretted lute of modern Greece.
bouzoukis
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pluralof bouzouki.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Despite famously composing much of Hounds of Love on a synthesizer - the Fairlight CMI - she melded those electronic sounds with acoustic folk instruments, such as balalaikas, bouzoukis and didgeridoos.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2022
Yeats and his poem “The Stolen Child” is the album’s last song, followed by 50 seconds of bouzoukis and violins cutting through a highland mist to play Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2020
In a 240,000-square-foot factory an hour east of New York City, several hundred workers buzz from shift to shift making strings for guitars, violins, Greek bouzoukis and Turkish ouds, some 700,000 per day.
From Forbes ● Aug. 20, 2014
Working with a new translation by Aaron Poochigian, the company is portraying Jason’s adventures in free performances across the city, using masks, wild costumes, drummers and the Greek guitars known as bouzoukis.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2012
First came the semiofficial merrymaking, amid champagne toasts, flowers and bouzoukis, on the afterdeck of the Onassis yacht Christina.
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