| 单词 | bottle and spoon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottle and spoon bottle and spoon n. (in the West Indies) an improvised percussion instrument consisting of a glass bottle, empty or partially filled with water, which is struck with a metal spoon.Often (and in earliest use) attributive. ΚΠ 1911 Mirror (Trinidad) 28 Feb. 7 in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 116/1 A pleasant feature was the increase of string bands and the decrease of tinpans, bamboo, graters, and bottle and spoon bands. 1957 N.Y. Times 21 Apr. 192 There were ten men,..an occasional woman . They played bass drum, kettle drum, flute,..bottle and spoon, clarinet, banjo. 1974 Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 3 Feb. 13/7 The programme is dedicated to the composers of the early tent brigade; men who made music with ‘Cuatro, bottle and spoon’. 2010 M. Munro Different Drummers ii. 115 Further rhythmic variety was provided by the bottle and spoon players. < as lemmas |
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