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Definition of Maraca
1. Noun. A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs.
Definition of Maraca
1. Noun. (musical instruments) A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument. ¹
2. Noun. (slang in the plural) breasts ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Maraca
1. a percussion instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maraca
Literary usage of Maraca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1812)
"GRÜNDEN, an island of the N. sea, near the coast of Guayana, opposite the island
of maraca, close to the cape Del Norte. place. ..."
2. The South American Pilot by James Penn, Great Britain Hydrographic Dept (1885)
"maraca ISLAND.—The coast from cape North sweeps round to the north-west and west,
... maraca is about 20 miles in length in a north-west and south-east ..."
3. The South America Pilot: From Cape St. Roque to Cape Virgins, Including by Great Britain Hydrographic Office, J. J. P. Hitchfield (1893)
"maraca is about 20 miles in length in a north-west and south-east direction, but
divided into ... The channel which separates maraca island and the main, ..."
4. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"Denunciations of this sort will help on, rather than hinder, the use of Amerind.
von den Steinen (K.) Eine anthropomorphic Todten-Urne von maraca. (Verb, d. ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1812)
"Then they led him before the door of the tabernacle, wherein the maraca, or
rattles oí divination, were kept ; they fastened a string of little rattles ..."
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