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Definition of Castanets
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Percussion Instrument, Percussive Instrument
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Definition of Castanets
1. n. pl. Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.
Definition of Castanets
1. Noun. A percussion instrument (idiophone) consisting of a pair of concave shells joined on one edge by a string, held in the hand and used to produce clicking sounds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Castanets
1. castanet [n] - See also: castanet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Castanets
Literary usage of Castanets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac, William Marchant, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1903)
"castanets. Two wooden shells, united by a string, clicking against each other in
the hollow of the hand,— these are castanets. ..."
2. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"The home of the castanets, or at any rate the land in which they 1 Ellis, Polyn., ii.
p. 283. 2 Schelling, /. c. :l Rosenberg, /. c., p. 93. ..."
3. With Garlands Green by Abba (Goold) Woolson (1915)
"castanets WHERE a fountain's pearly shiver Cools a garden-court, I lie; And my
soul to dreams ... O'er her head so wildly clapping castanets, her castanets. ..."
4. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"castanets, and another blew the double-pipes. In the midst of these nymphs danced
a young man, with no covering beyond a chlamys on his shoulders, ..."
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