| 单词 | kist o' whistles |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskist o' whistles c. kist o' whistles, kist o' whustles, an organ (organ n.1 2). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] organc1380 a pair (also set) of organs1422 box of whistles1678 kist o' whistles1772 set1795 whistle-kist1843 pipe organ1862 melodica1890 1772 A. Ramsay New Misc. Sc. Sangs [ Tea-Table Misc. ] 141 The Kist fou of Whistles, That make sic a Cleiro. 1828 J. Ruddiman Tales & Sketches 60 To cram down our craigs, will we, nill we, their kists o'whistles. 1866 C. Engel Introd. Study National Music viii. 272 The instances where an organ—or a ‘a kist o' whistles’, as this noble instrument has been termed—has gained favour in a Scotch congregation, are exceptional. 1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 13 May 4/2 M. Gigout, who was performing on the ‘kist o' whustles’. 1891 R. Ford Thistledown vi. 106 There was no such thing as an organ, or ‘kist o' whustles’, in any Presbyterian kirk in the land. 1936 Discovery July 223/2 The normal ‘kist of whistles’ would spoil the architectural effect. 1947 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ (title) A kist of whistles. 1969 C. Geeson Northumberland & Durham Word Bk. 118 Kist o' whistles, an organ in Scotland and Northumberland. < as lemmas |
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