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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Julius Wechter was playing marimba — dear friend of mine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Son Rompe Pera Centered on the hollow tunes of the marimba, Son Rompe Pera brings the rebellious spirit of punk to the Afro-Indigenous beats of cumbia.
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
Jenny Lewis didn’t mean to wind up with the marimba.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 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
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
As for the Partch, it was played by Partch, guitarist John Schneider’s ensemble dedicated to re-creating the art-object Partch instruments — the cloud chamber bowls, the exotic massive marimbas and the like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2018
It unfurls on a steeply raked stage bordered by corrugated metal and surrounded by seven large marimbas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2017
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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