Pandean

American  

[pan-dee-uhn, pan-dee-uhn] / pænˈdi ən, ˈpæn di ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the god Pan.

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Pandean British  

/ pænˈdiːən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the god Pan

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Etymology

Origin of Pandean

1800–10; Pan + -d- (< ?) + -e- (< Latin -ae ( us )) + -an

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Example Sentences

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Pandean

From far-off pools and wastes of reeds I hear, Clear and soft-piped, the chanting frogs break sweet In full Pandean chorus.

From Alcyone by Archibald Lampman

Progress has banished those Pandean spirits from the woodlands, but the moon is the mother of magic, and her children steal out, furtive, half fearful, when she raises her lamp as of old.

From The Orchard of Tears by Sax Rohmer

Pandean, pan-dē′an, adj. of or relating to the god Pan.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Players and riders,—men and women,—clothed in gay raiments, rendered brilliant with spangles, paced backwards and forwards along their platforms to the sound of drums, organs, and Pandean pipes, cymbals, tambourines, and castanets.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland

For us, he is the middle reed of our living Pandean Pipes.

From Child Life In Town And Country 1909 by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson

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