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charangos

charangos is the plural of charango.

Meaning of charango

Noun

charango (plural charangos)

  1. A small guitar-like stringed instrument with five courses of eighteen to fifteen strings, originating in traditional Andean folk music.
    • One song the group performed on Thursday, “La Partida,” featured lovely bell harmonics from the guitars, a shifting pattern of cross‐rhythms on the guitar‐like charango, and a quena lead.1978 April 14, “Music: Inti‐Illimani, From the Andes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about charangos

What is charangos the plural of?
Charangos is the plural of charango.

Words near charangos in the dictionary

  1. charango
  2. charangoist
  3. charangoists
  4. charangon
  5. charangons
  6. charangos
  7. charanguista
  8. charanguistas
  9. Charania
  10. Charanias
  11. Charans

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