Meanings of castanet in English

Again he clinks his metal castanet, and leads us leisurely away.

I turned to Scipio, standing by the low-boy, his teeth, going like a castanet.

This consisted of either a tambourine dance, a Spanish castanet dance, or a fan dance.

Following them, war-chariots thundered by with a castanet accompaniment of jingling harness and jarring armor.

Oh, what fun! and away she skipped, rattling the dear new bank like a castanet.

His left hand trembles on the wheel, his right shakes the cassette recorder like a castanet.

Do you remember my castanet song, Hetty?

After she swallowed, she shook the medicine bottle like a castanet, her eyes on Emma once more.

From the pig-run came the quick, hard patter of hoofs, a castanet sound, seductive, maddening-thepromise of meat.

Of a castanet noisily played.

Jacques Benton-Ramirez y Chou finished dressing and sealed his tunic with a hand which should have resembled a castanet but didn't.

With Norris directing Bernal in Lorca's Blood Wedding, you know you won't hear a castanet, nor see Latin seething conveyed as British boisterousness.

We moved slowly forward, toward the sound of the fierce moaning grunts which were varied at times by a castanet chattering of the tusks.

He even joined a course to learn how to play the castanets.

Those with the castanets were the Ebisu party and formed the chorus.

The sound of the castanets seemed to make her alive all over.