nose flute
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Arquette, who has bought the rights to the story of Bozo the Clown and plans to make a film on the children's character, said his "clown thing" was playing the nose flute.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2022
Consisting of Mark Stewart and Rob Schwimmer, it specializes in instruments unlike anything you’ve ever heard: the nose flute, the slide-whistle organ, saxophones made of plumbing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
I could understand it if the festival was for ethnic Tibetan nose flute music or some other worthy-but-financially-precarious-venture, but for big-name comedy?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2012
So Kanag went and ate and he said, “Mother, give me that nose flute so I can play.”
From Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore by Cole, Fay-Cooper
When a woman dies she is treated in the same way, but the nose flute is the only instrument that accompanies her.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl
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