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‖ matraca|maˈtraka|
Also mattraca.
[Sp.]
In Spain: a kind of mechanical wooden rattle used instead of church bells on Good Friday.
1910C. B. Luffmann Quiet Days in Spain i. 14 A singular contrivance in the high towers takes the place of bells on Good Friday; this is the ‘mattraca’—three long boxes of heavy wood arranged round a spindle, with several roughly fashioned hammers with rings in their handles, through which a rod is run to keep them in place. At short intervals during the whole of Good Friday the mattraca is turned round, grindstone fashion, and creates a most awful din... As I can find no clue to the origin of the mattraca, I fall back on the belief that it was intended to inform the multitude of the building of, or nailing of Christ to, the cross. 1974S. E. Morison European Discovery of America: Southern Voyages v. 92 Holy Week in Seville... The supreme Passion on Good Friday when one heard the clacking of the matraca in place of cheerful bells. |