maraca
/məˈrakə
/noun (usually maracas)
A hollow gourd or gourd-shaped container filled with beans, pebbles, or similar objects, forming one of a pair and shaken as a percussion instrument in Latin American music.One morning the youngest children shook maracas, banged small cymbals, and danced and skipped to international music in a room lined with colorful banners and maps....
- Larger bands have trumpets and strings as well as extensive percussion sections in which maracas, guiros, and bongos are primary instruments.
- That zone now belongs to the hordes of zealots invited there personally to take up maracas and other such percussion.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Portuguese maracá, from Tupi.
Rhymes
- fricandeau
- fricassee
- fricative
- fricken
- Frick, Henry Clay
- fricking
- friction
- frictional
- frictional unemployment
- friction clutch
- friction drive
- frictioned
- frictionless
- frictionlessly
- friction tape
- friction welding
- Friday
- Friday-face
- Friday-faced
- Friday fare
- Friday feast
- Friday prayers
- Fridays
- fridge
- fridge-freezer