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Dancer's equipment
Answer for the clue "Dancer's equipment ", 9 letters:
castanets
Alternative clues for the word castanets
- Spanish dancer's clickers
- A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
- Spanish dancer's percussion instrument
- Rhythm instruments
- Carmen clicks them
- Spanish dancers' accessories
- Clicking instruments
Word definitions for castanets in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castanets \Cas"ta*nets\, n. pl. [F. castagnettes, Sp. casta[~n]etas, fr. L. castanea (Sp. casta[~n]a) a chestnut. So named from the resemblance to two chestnuts, or because chestnuts were first used for castanets. See Chestnut .] Two small, concave shells ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Fine, dry nights were accompanied by the sound of wild pea pods clacking like castanets . ▪ I clattered down the street-my heels noisy as castanets on the kerb-through to the market. ▪ If I'd had some castanets I'd have clicked ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance [syn: bones , clappers , finger cymbals , maraca ...
Usage examples of castanets.
Finally they come, eight of them, armed with tiny knives and little wooden clappers like castanets which they clap near the ears of their victims in a ritual of childish Zenlike spite.
I delighted above all in the subtle gymnastics of the dance, and discovered a weakness for women with castanets, who reminded me of the region of Gades and the first spectacles which I had attended as a child.
They accompanied on guzlas, on castanets, on tambourines, and sang the old airs, doleful and languorous, or excitable and breathiess as the flight of the earliest nomads in the beginnings of the world.
She had sat pulling one finger after another listening to the knuckles cracking like castanets while startling vituperations frothed from her lips.
Tom was so busy chasing up Spanish hats, castanets, a guitarist and a flamenco dancer that he never seemed to have time to discuss the menus.
Tom begged her to believe that all they wanted was the feel that they were actually in Spain already which the sangria, Rioja and the click of the castanets would give them.
Tutting like castanets the stewardesses glowered as the group left the plane and the Spanish pilot came from the flight deck to view them and to stare accusingly at Nicholas.
A shrieking duet of blender motors was accompanied by castanets of clattering ice cubes being whirled together with tequila and Margarita mix.
She had caught up her castanets, and rattled them as she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace, her diamond eyes glittering, her round arms wreathing and unwinding, alive and vibrant to the tips of the slender fingers.
She stopped suddenly, caught the chain of mosaics and settled it hastily in its place, flung down her castanets, drew herself back, and stood looking at him, with her head a little on one side, and her eyes narrowing in the way he had known so long and well.
She hummed a tune to herself, rattling a pair of castanets slightly now and then.
Before he had really time to understand the subject of the quarrel, the girl jumped up rattling her castanets loudly.
A trio of cassowaries loped across a clearing, their exposed ribs clacking against one another like castanets as they ran.
Her hands shook and the metal of the binoculars rattled like castanets against the glass top.
He knew he was doing exactly the same, but he couldn't help it, and he felt disbelief giving way to an exultant inner shout that threatened to rattle the bones of his soul like castanets.