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n. (plural of sistrum English)
Usage examples of "sistrums".
He peeked carefully through a tiny gap between the curtain and the doorpost, as he heard the chiming sound of sistrums and the footsteps of many people.
With a last shake of the sistrums, the priests dropped their arms as one, and filed out the door, as solemnly as they had come.
Chanting and setting spells of protection, accompanied by little priestesses with sistrums and boys with drums, it appeared that they were determined to cover every corridor of the compound, and in the process, get in everyone's way.
Like the bells of crystal on the sistrums of Isis at Dendarah Temple,' he added half-dreamily.
When they shook their tambourines and sistrums, in voluptuous poses, feudal barons found them irresistible, but that made them all the more hateful in the eyes of the pious and grave, a reaction that was for Alobar a source of endless delight.
Forty women, draped only in strings of colorful beads, tootled reed flutes, plucked harps, rattled sistrums, thumped drums, clacked bone clappers, and clanged bronze cymbals.
They were chanting and shaking sistrums over the brazier in one corner in which cauterizing tongs glowed red hot.