litui
- plural of lituus.
Example Sentences
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He could show the litui with their carved clarions--the twisted cornua--the tuba, a trumpet so long and taper,--the concha wound by Tritons--and eke the buccina, a short and brattling horn.
From A Love Story by A Bushman
The word is used, though it is hardly fitting; what the people heard when they came forth was rather an uproar of trumpets and the shriller litui so delightful to the soldiers.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
