Pandean

[pan-dee-uhn, pan-dee-uhn]

adjective

1. of or relating to the god Pan.

Pandean

/ pænˈdiːən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the god Pan

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pandean¹

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

Example Sentences

Johann Christian Bach composed songs for Vauxhall every season for fifteen years, though even he must have felt upstaged by an Italian gentleman called Rivolta whose novelty act at the Gardens involved his playing eight musical instruments simultaneously: pandean pipes, tabor, Spanish guitar, triangle, harmonica, Chinese crescent, cymbals and bass drum.

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

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The showman flung his pandean pipe at Pat's snout, and the poor intruder ran howling round the amused throng.

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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.

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Always, while he was preparing some new trick, a man kept playing on the Pandean pipes, and beating a drum at the same time.

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