Pandean
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Pandean
Example Sentences
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Players and riders,—men and women,—clothed in gay raiments, rendered brilliant with spangles, paced backwards and forwards along their platforms to the sound of drums, organs, and Pandean pipes, cymbals, tambourines, and castanets.
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland
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
Sounds of alguja, a kind of Pandean pipe with seven openings, struck our attention; their music was wafted by the wind quite distinctly from somewhere in the wood.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
Tell Fang Kuan to sing us the 'Hsün Meng' ballad; and let only flutes and Pandean pipes be used.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
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
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