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

Example Sentences

The first wooden flutes were doubtless the Pandean pipes, in which the tone was produced by blowing across the open ends of hollow reeds.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

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 Joly, H. Bencraft

Another conceit in the form of a Sphinx or Pandean pipe has been attributed to Theocritus—perhaps without good foundation.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

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 Rohmer, Sax

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