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

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 Leyland, Francis A.

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

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

From Roumania Past and Present by Samuelson, James

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

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

From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood