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Latin percussive pair
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maracas
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ However, no amount of maracas and twangy guitars can eliminate the sense of having been shortchanged. ▪ Not only did he bed Pat last night but some one is about to burst in and catch her rattling his maracas . ▪ Try penny whistles, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see maraca .
Usage examples of maracas.
They picked up the rattles, tambourines, and maracas and were making a racket that was enough to wake the dead.
The samba dancer held a pair of brightly painted maracas in his slender hands.
But where the male samba dancer held maracas, she balanced a magnificently plumed parrot on her wrist.
I would like to requisition twenty percussive instruments, such as snare drums, kettledrums, tambourines, maracas, marimbas, rattles, and gongs.
Then he tried the maracas, which appeared to have been made from genuine gourds in a time-honored tradition—before having been scanned and stored in the replicator's memory for resurrection hundreds of years later.
Then he tried the maracas, which appeared to have been made from genuine gourds in a time-honored tradition—before having been scanned and stored in the replicator’s memory for resurrection hundreds of years later.
Then he tried the maracas, which appeared to have been made from genuine gourds in a time-honored traditionbefore having been scanned and stored in the replicator's memory for resurrection hundreds of years later.