What is another word for castanets?

Pronunciation: [kˈastɐnˌɛts] (IPA)

Castanets are a percussion instrument that consists of two shells made of hardwood or plastic that are joined by a cord. They are typically played by clapping them together with the fingers to create a distinctive, rhythmic sound. Although "castanets" is the most common term for this instrument, there are several other synonyms that can be used as well. These include clackers, palillos, talaqueras, and panderetas. Each of these terms has its own unique origins and cultural significance, but all of them refer to the same basic instrument and the fun and festive rhythms that it can produce.

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Usage examples for Castanets

The picturesque figures of the dancers; the girls with their hair in silken nets that hung in knots and tassels down their backs, their mantillas floating round their graceful forms, their slender feet peeping from under their basquinas, their arms tossed up in the air to play the castanets, had a beautiful effect on this airy height, with the rich evening landscape spreading out below them.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
It's all very well for you to laugh, my lord," he remonstrated, as the other man's guffaws grew exasperating, "but it would take you all your time to keep your back stiff when the horse under you is sitting up like a cat, and the back of his head trying to play the castanets with your front teeth.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
Then Kent passed her, loping back to the town, the led horse shaking his saddle so that it rattled the stirrups like castanets as he galloped.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower

Famous quotes with Castanets

  • Still another nightmare he suffered at a dance given by the old Duchess Dowager of Somerset, a terrible vision in castanets, who seized him and forced him to perform a Highland fling before the assembled nobility and gentry, with the daughter of the Turkish Ambassador for partner. This might seem humorous to some, but to him the world turned to ashes.
    Henry Adams

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