music shelln.
/ˈmjuːzɪk ʃɛl/, U.S. /ˈmjuzɪk ˌʃɛl/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Volutidae > member of
musical-shell1666
music shell1666
rhomb-shell?1711
rhomb1815
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 125 (heading) Musick-shell [Fr. D'un Coquillage couvert de Notes de Musique].
1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 231 The West-India kinds of Musick Shells, of which genus yet there are none in the European Seas.
1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VI. Table LVI Small Indian Music-Shell.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 145 The ribbed Music-shell.
1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 200 Voluta Musica, West Indian Music Shell.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 444/1 Musicales, the Music Shells. Consisting of Volutæ ebræa, musica, &c.
2. North American. = band shell n. at band n.3 Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > place of performance or practice > [noun] > band-stand > specific
music shell1927
band shell1928
shell1938
1927 Amer. City July 88/1 The music shell at the rear center is to be of Moorish design, combining storage rooms for music-stands, seats, etc.
1978 Chicago June 22/2 Each concert will be given on two evenings, and performances will take place..in the new James C. Petrillo Music Shell at Jackson and Columbus.
1995 Canad. Geogr. (Electronic ed.) 17 July He drilled his troops in Chatham's Tecumseh Park. Black men from North Buxton, Hamilton and St. Catharine's practised manoeuvres where now stands the Kiwanis Music Shell.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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