The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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
In the early 1980s, Tom Waits drew inspiration from Partch’s jerry-rigged chemistry-lab–castoff and scrap-metal sound engines to switch from piano crooning to hammering on car parts, marimbas, and parade drums with Swordfishtrombones.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2016
You get CFCF’s “The Colours of Life,” a 40-minute instrumental suite that layers airy synths, noodling guitars, marimbas and, God help us, panpipes over simple, propulsive rhythms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2016
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
