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trimba

trimba noun: a sort of triangular drum.

Noun

trimba (plural trimbas)

  1. A sort of triangular drum.
    • Working in Braille, often composing under his cloak on the sidewalk, he wrote in an impressively wide range of styles: percussion-driven exotica (he made his own triangular drum-and-cymbal instrument, the trimba), avant-garde jazz, folkish madrigals, Bach-like neo-Baroque rounds and canons for...2007 October 28, John Strausbaugh, “Sidewalk Hero, on the Horns of a Revival”, in New York Times

Forms of trimba

pluraltrimbas

Origin of trimba

Coined by its inventor, the American composer and poet Moondog (born Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916–1999).

Questions about trimba

What does trimba mean?
Trimba means a sort of triangular drum.
What part of speech is trimba?
Trimba is a noun.
What is the plural of trimba?
The plural of trimba is trimbas.

Words near trimba in the dictionary

  1. trimatrices
  2. trimatrix
  3. trimaximal
  4. trimaximally
  5. trimazosin
  6. trimba
  7. trimbas
  8. Trimble
  9. Trimble County
  10. Trimbles
  11. Trimboli

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