mirliton
[mir-li-ton; French meer-lee-tawn]
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Origin of mirliton
1810–20; < French: literally, reed-pipe
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Historical Examples
Beat the caviare to a cream and pound the peaches to a pulp; then add the sugar and millet and stir vigorously with a mirliton.
Bruant ran the Mirliton on the principle that the less easily pleasure is come by, the more it will be prized.
NightsElizabeth Robins Pennell
Trilby singing "Ben Bolt" into a mirliton was a thing to be remembered, whether one would or no!
TrilbyGeorge Du Maurier
To give an account of the “Mirliton” is to tell the story of Bruant, the most popular ballad-writer in France to-day.
The Ways of MenEliot Gregory
Driven forth again I fly home, accompanied by the unnerving tones of the mirliton pipes.
The InfernoAugust Strindberg
mirliton
- another name (chiefly US) for chayote
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Word Origin
C19: French, literally: reed pipe, of imitative origin
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