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Dutch concerts

Dutch concerts is the plural of Dutch concert.

Meaning of Dutch concert

Noun

Dutch concert (plural Dutch concerts)

  1. (humorous, obsolete, slang) A performance in which all the musicians play different songs at the same time.
    • Woe to light sleepers, whose delicate susceptibilities no rough campaigning usages had blunted as yet, for throughout the dreary night there was an everlasting Dutch concert of snortings, neighings, winnowings, squealings, from time to time diversified by the more practice misdemeanours of some...1859, Our Veterans of 1854: In Camp, and Before the Enemy
    Synonyms:
    Dutch medley

Questions about Dutch concerts

What is Dutch concerts the plural of?
Dutch concerts is the plural of Dutch concert.

Words near Dutch concerts in the dictionary

  1. Dutch clover
  2. Dutch Colonial
  3. Dutch comfort
  4. Dutch comforts
  5. Dutch concert
  6. Dutch concerts
  7. Dutch consolation
  8. Dutch corner
  9. Dutch corners
  10. Dutch courage
  11. Dutch crunch

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