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单词 pellet bell
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pellet belln.

Brit. /ˈpɛlɪt ˌbɛl/, U.S. /ˈpɛlət ˌbɛl/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pellet n.1, bell n.1
Etymology: < pellet n.1 + bell n.1
Music. Chiefly historical.
A small spherical bell sounded by one or more pellets inside its cavity, and usually attached either to a dancer's clothes or to a musical instrument.
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1907 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 37 68 A round, wide-rimmed pot covered with a drum-head of sheep-skin, to the centre of which is fixed one end of a small stick which carries two pellet-bells.
1942 Amer. Anthropologist 44 464 Pellet bells were also used on men's buckskin or broadcloth leggings.
1997 F. A. D'Accone Civic Muse 415 (note) The sixteenth-century theorist Gioseffo Zerlino described it [sc. the cembalo] as having a parchment head, pellet bells, and jingles.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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