Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument of the southern negroes of the United States resembling a drum.
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Examples
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By the way, my daughter almost 2 calls all water birds "quaqua," so if you stick with that for ducks, geese, pelicans or seagulls you're all good around here.
Friday Night Photos: Liberty Park in Salt Lake City Kalyn Denny 2008
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Nihil quicquid homini tam prosperum divinitus datum, quin ei admixtum sit aliquid difficultatis ut etiam amplissima quaqua laetitia, subsit quaepiam vel parva querimonia conjugatione quadam mellis, et fellis.
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Not much attention was yet paid to Native American music, but a sociological interest was taken in some of the instruments slaves had brought from Africa, such as the “banjor” (banjo), the “barrafou” (which resembled a xylophone), and the “quaqua” (a kind of drum).
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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Not much attention was yet paid to Native American music, but a sociological interest was taken in some of the instruments slaves had brought from Africa, such as the “banjor” (banjo), the “barrafou” (which resembled a xylophone), and the “quaqua” (a kind of drum).
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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Bates found one seated alone on a branch, at no great elevation, uttering at intervals, in a complaining tone, its usual cry of "quaqua."
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Ad frustrandos insequentes, publica jumenta, quaqua iter ageret, interficiens.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Ad frustrandos insequentes, publica jumenta, quaqua iter ageret, interficiens.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Verum fi lubet, prtmo acceperit, fe&iones, quaqua looo rationent ex umbrae ii - verfum duftae, funt ocnnes gura duibun accipe.
Ploutarchou ... ta Ethika: Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua 1797
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