Wiktionary
hurdy-gurdies
n. (hurdy-gurdy English)
Usage examples of "hurdy-gurdies".
Vinegar-sellers with casks on wheels, musicians with bagpipes and hurdy-gurdies, cake-sellers with broad flat baskets of steaming confections that made Jack light in the head.
From the windows of the dining hall at the far end of the terrace, thousands of lamps threw moving shadows on the gravel and the muted riot of hautboys and viols could be detected from that direction, vying with the jangle of hurdy-gurdies in the streets, drunken celebration, and a whore's shrill laughter.
He liked anything musical church bells, hurdy-gurdies, the chants of the street vendors selling hot crabcakes.