marimba
Americannoun
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marimbas
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of marimba
1695–1705; < Portuguese < Kimbundu or a related Bantu language; akin to kalimba
Vocabulary lists containing marimba
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Leading an orchestra of 22, featuring lively colorations from saxophone, harp, marimba and guitar, conductor Michael Sakir captured the music’s landscape of alternating pulse and elegy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
When reminiscing about playing the marimba at weddings and quinceañeras as a kid, he recalls the strong emotions he felt when listening to Mexican cumbias.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
He holds small mallets in his “hands” to play a kind of xylophone called a marimba.
From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 1, 2024
Their collaboration, “Odyssey,” finds common ground in synthesizer-centered 1980s pop, specifically Talking Heads’ 1980 “Once in a Lifetime” plus a lot of marimba or xylophone overdubs.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
With a final kick, a final marimba concert, a final autumnal lunge through leaf stacks, they went home.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
She took classical piano lessons as a child but gravitated to the drums, marimbas and synths kept in her instructor’s piano room.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022
Lange’s first full-length album as Helado Negro, “Awe Owe,” blended some of the sounds of his South Florida upbringing into warm bilingual jams, weaving whimsical freak folk into mellow beats and melting marimbas.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
The slippery way Zagga articulates those lines, and the chime of synth marimbas beneath them, makes for the most enticing Emily Post update ever.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2020
The former bore the influence of world music – African rhythms, marimbas, flamenco, calypso – while the latter stirred jazz, tabla drums and zydeco-inspired accordion into the mix.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2019
Or like marimbas only with a funny little plucked sound to it like if you were running your fingers across the teeth of a metal comb.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
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