α. 1800s panspipe, 1800s pan's-pipe, 1900s– pan's pipe.
β. 1800s– pan pipe, 1800s– pan-pipe, 1800s– panpipe.
Also with capital initial.
单词 | panpipe |
释义 | panpipen.α. 1800s panspipe, 1800s pan's-pipe, 1900s– pan's pipe. β. 1800s– pan pipe, 1800s– pan-pipe, 1800s– panpipe. Also with capital initial. In singular and (now usually) plural. A simple wind instrument made from a series of short pipes (originally reeds) graduated in length so as to form a scale, and fixed together with their mouth ends in line; a syrinx. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > pan-pipes fristelec1400 fretel1480 quill1567 syrinx1606 mouth organ1670 sheng1795 panpipe1805 pandean harmonica1807 pandean pipe1814 shō1888 α. β. 1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. p. xxxv (note) Olympus is generally represented, as a young man..taking lessons on the pan~pipe from Marsyas.1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1114 A man playing the Pan-pipes, or ‘mouth-organ’.1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 105 The tootling of pan-pipes in front of the shows.1905 Westm. Gaz. 7 Mar. 2/3 Michael Faraday, according to tradition, would leave his investigations at the sound of the pan-pipes and see the melo-tragedy [sc. Punch and Judy] once more.1929 B. Carman Wild Garden 24 There comes that silver music down the wind again! No Pan-pipe ever uttered a more beguiling strain.2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. ii. 274/2 Apart from their use at fiestas, panpipes are played mainly in the dry season, from April to October.1805 H. Reeve Jrnl. 29 Nov. in Resid. Vienna & Berlin (1877) 69 Most of her ill-placed Pan's-pipe ornaments were loudly applauded by the French part of the audience. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 81 Hermês surrenders to Apollo the lyre, inventing for his own use the syrinx or panspipe. 1893 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 4 1 The syrinx, or pan's-pipe, was an instrument of the first type, but was not called an αὐλός. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1805 |
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