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Meanings of castanets in English
Portuguese
castanhola Catalan
castanyoles A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
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1
He even joined a course to learn how to play the castanets.
2
Those with the castanets were the Ebisu party and formed the chorus.
3
The sound of the castanets seemed to make her alive all over.
4
Over her thumb hung castanets and in her hand was a tambourine.
5
And she danced about the room, snapping her fingers instead of castanets.
6
But he was still dreadfully frightened and his teeth rattled like castanets.
7
Materials for dancing; as masques, castanets, and a ladder of ten rounds.
8
He blubbered as his teeth went together like a pair of castanets.
9
So we waited, and I could hear his teeth clicking like castanets.
10
They were snapping their strong hooked beaks like castanets, and hissing indignantly.
11
His teeth are chattering like castanets and he's repeatedly slapping his leg.
12
And the hop tree has its castanets all green and gold.
13
My teeth chattered like castanets, jarring in my jaws until it was painful.
14
She clicked some castanets in her throat, which was her way of laughing.
15
From the dining-room came a din of songs, hand-clapping and castanets.
16
Furious blasts clutched at the windows, and rattled them like castanets.
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