单词 | pellet bell |
释义 | pellet belln. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > small bell bellc1175 cocklebell1378 crier1467 tantony1567 jingle1615 campanel1653 ting-tang1681 tinkler1767 crotal1790 grelot1854 pellet bell1907 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). < n.1907 |
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