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shruti boxes

shruti boxes is the plural of shruti box.

Meaning of shruti box

Noun

shruti box (plural shruti boxes)

  1. A musical instrument resembling a harmonium, used to provide a droning accompaniment in Indian classical music.
    • During the “Gayatri Mantra” her voice soared over the hypnotic drone that one hand coaxed from her shruti box, while the other hand energetically massaged the air.2006 December 2, Vivien Schweitzer, “Prayer, Texts and Chants, Along With Some Improv”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    surpeti

Questions about shruti boxes

What is shruti boxes the plural of?
Shruti boxes is the plural of shruti box.

Words near shruti boxes in the dictionary

  1. shrunken up
  2. shrunkenly
  3. shrunkenness
  4. shruti
  5. shruti box
  6. shruti boxes
  7. shrutis
  8. Shryock
  9. Shryocks
  10. SHS
  11. sHSP

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