CASTANETS


Meaning of CASTANETS in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Fine, dry nights were accompanied by the sound of wild pea pods clacking like castanets .

I clattered down the street-my heels noisy as castanets on the kerb-through to the market.

If I'd had some castanets I'd have clicked them in his face.

The jacaranda pods were too stiff to act as castanets .

While drinking our essential morning tea and coffee we were lost in a sea of women in traditional dress with castanets .

With the tip of her painted fingernail, the dancer salesgirl showed the miniature castanets the doll was holding.

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