| 单词 | lotus flute |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslotus flute lotus flute n. (a) Ancient Greek Music (apparently) a kind of flute carved from the wood of the lotus (sense 3); (b) a non-transverse flute without fingering holes; a slide whistle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute > other flutes doucetc1450 flute-douce1676 tibia1705 zufolo1724 ney1756 monaulos1776 flûte-à-bec1797 lotus flute1826 bamboo flute1862 dizi1874 shakuhachi1893 quena1909 tonette1958 1826 F. E. J. Valpy tr. in Fund. Words Greek Lang. 327 Stags and horses are charmed by pipes and flutes; and they call up pungers from the caverns by forcing them with lotus-flutes [Gk. ϕώτιγξι]. 1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 101 Melody o' the Lybian lotusflute. 1854 C. D. Yonge tr. Athenæus Deipnosophists I. 283 The flutes called lotus flutes [Gk. λώτινοι αὐλοὶ] are the same which are called photinges by the Alexandrians; and they are made of the plant called the lotus; and this is a wood which grows in Libya. 1921 Musicians' Rep. & Jrnl. June 8 (advt.) The ‘swanee whistle or lotus flute’. 1990 R. Bagg tr. Euripides Bakkhai in R. W. Corrigan Classical Trag.: Greek & Rom. 376 Lotus flutes whistle their sweet holy notes, the running women veer in their flight to the mountain! 2001 Wire June 74/1 The first movement draws on Bartók's ‘night music’, while the second..is bookended by the striking sounds of the lotus flute. < as lemmas |
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