¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Marimbas
1. marimba [n] - See also: marimba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marimbas
Literary usage of Marimbas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Benguella to the Territory of Yacca: Description of a Journey Into by Hermenegildo Carlos de Brito Capello, Roberto Ivens, Alfred Elwes (1882)
"~J ^H^fH^^3^- §1 marimbas. It may have been want of taste on our part, but we
could read none of these things in the charivari of sounds that at the close ..."
2. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"Among the Angola four marimbas form a concert.5 Livingstone saw a marimba ...
In Guatemala several marimbas play together in perfect accord with some song.8 ..."
3. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"Among the Angola four marimbas form a concert.5 Livingstone saw a marimba ...
In Guatemala several marimbas play together in perfect accord with some song.8 ..."
4. Angola and the River Congo by Joachim John Monteiro (1876)
"The ring of spectators and dancers, the illuminations, the "marimbas" ...
The light wood of which the "marimbas" are made is that of the cotton-wood tree. ..."
5. Some Uses of School Assemblies by Teachers College, Columbia University, Lincoln School (1922)
"... class singing The Class How We Made Our marimbas Jack One day we went up to
the shop with the teacher and she said, "We are going to make some marimbas. ..."
6. Nonfiction Reading Practice, Grade 6 by Ellen Linnihan (2003)
"Reading the Selections Words to Introduce Words to Introduce bugle corps competitions
valves soprano alto mellophone euphonium contra woodwinds marimbas ..."
7. WMD Machete by Mark Plimsoll (2006)
"He explained to me about the marimbas. See the gourds that hang down under the
wooden xylophone? They amplify the tones, and sometimes buzz with sound. ..."
8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"To THE EDITOR OF SCIENCE: Some of the African xylophones (marimbas) and those of
Central America, which negro slaves introduced there, ..."
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