Pandean pipes

American  

plural noun

1. panpipe.

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Etymology

Origin of Pandean pipes

First recorded in 1810–20

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Example Sentences

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Pandean pipes

Ahead of him he saw nothing but dancing sunshine, heard nothing but the Pandean pipes.

From The Auction Block by Rex Ellingwood Beach

Tell Fang Kuan to sing us the 'Hsün Meng' ballad; and let only flutes and Pandean pipes be used.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly

This was done in ancient as it is in modern times, by playing the Pandean pipes.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech

These usually play upon one or two violins, a mandoline, and the Pandean pipes.

From Roumania Past and Present by James Samuelson

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

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