eunuch flutes
eunuch flutes is the plural of eunuch flute.
Meaning of eunuch flute
Noun
eunuch flute (plural eunuch flutes)
- A simple musical instrument consisting of a wooden tube with a hole in it, used like a modern kazoo.
- Now there was in Shakespeare's time a pipe called the eunuch flute. It was not an instrument that could generate sound but only a contrivance for imparting to the voice a trembling or buzzing sort of tone not unlike that which children produce by means of a piece of paper folded over a comb.2011, Christopher Welch, Six Lectures on the Recorder and Other Flutes in Relation to Literature
- Synonyms:
- mirliton, onion flute
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- What is eunuch flutes the plural of?
- Eunuch flutes is the plural of eunuch flute.
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