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castanet
[ kas-tuh-net ]
noun
- either of a pair of concave pieces of wood held in the palm of the hand and clicked together, usually to accompany dancing.
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When threatened, the creatures flap furiously toward freedom, “opening and closing their shells like panicked castanets.”
By the end of that time his tongue was making sounds like a muffled castanet, and his resolution was scorched out of him.
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He shook the door by the iron handle until the latch clattered like a castanet: there was no sound from within.
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Where the two were missing he carried the stem of his pipe, and when he talked the stem clicked, like a Castanet.
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Again he clinks his metal castanet, and leads us leisurely away.
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And now the trio was a trio of castanet smacks and cymbal claps.
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