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Definition of Banjoes
1. banjo [n] - See also: banjo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banjoes
Literary usage of Banjoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"We must work it with the banjoes — play an' dance at the same time. ... He waved
one leg in time to the hammered refrain, and the banjoes grew louder. ..."
2. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
"Gourds were for the firsl lime converted inlo banjoes ; every carpenter, joiner,
and worker in wood, set to work to construct himself a fiddle; ..."
3. My First Book: The Experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark by Jerome Klapka Jerome (1894)
"Some of them had been sung to the banjoes round camp fires, and some had run as
far down coast as Rangoon and Moulmein, and up to Mandalay. ..."
4. Notes of Travel: Or, Recollections of Majunga, Zanzibar, Muscat, Aden, Mocha by Joseph Barlow Felt Osgood (1854)
"... hats and umbrellas in its leaves; in the husk of the fruit sails, cordage and
fishing lines; drinking vessels and banjoes in its shells, and even sieves ..."
5. Shipwrecks and disasters at sea by William Henry Giles Kingston (1883)
"There was music and dancing, and song and laughter; the opera singers practising
their airs, the negro minstrels playing their banjoes, striking their bones ..."
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