Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of tambourine or cymbal.

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Examples

  • During the singing of each couplet, of very peculiar rhythm, a dancer took her position by him and remained there immovable, listening to him, but each time that the burden came from the lips of the young singer, she resumed her dance, dinning in his ears with her daire, and deafening him with the clashing of her cymbals.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • During the singing of each couplet, of very peculiar rhythm, a dancer took her position by him and remained there immovable, listening to him, but each time that the burden came from the lips of the young singer, she resumed her dance, dinning in his ears with her daire, and deafening him with the clashing of her cymbals.

    Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar Jules Verne 1866

  • Reing-i rûy-i gül-zâri tebâh eyledi bülbül/M. Kemiksiz [2: 12] ud, ney, kemânçe, şehrud, nakkare, daire

    AvaxHome RSS: 2010

  • Reing-i rûy-i gül-zâri tebâh eyledi bülbül/M. Kemiksiz [2: 12] ud, ney, kemânçe, şehrud, nakkare, daire

    AvaxHome RSS: yerbas07 2010

  • Aks-i rûy-i yâr ile pürdür derûn-i sinemiz/E. Çelik [1: 29] çeng, ney, şehrud, nakkare, daire

    AvaxHome RSS: 2010

  • The online store sells Amana, Frigi-daire, GE and Whirlpool white goods through its network of

    TWICE - Digital Imaging News 2010

  • But this group from Pirin, near Bulgaria's border with Greece and Macedonia, also sings more conventional-sounding Muslim folk material accompanied by tarambuka (a hand drum), tambura (a long-necked lute), daire (tambourine), and other regional instruments.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Of the musical instruments of the period during which Kantemiroğlu transcribed the pieces, only the ney, nakkare (kudüm) and daire were still in use in modern times.

    AvaxHome RSS: yerbas07 2010

  • The online store sells Amana, Frigi-daire, GE and Whirlpool white goods through its network of

    TWICE - Digital Imaging News 2010

  • Aks-i rûy-i yâr ile pürdür derûn-i sinemiz/E. Çelik [1: 29] çeng, ney, şehrud, nakkare, daire

    AvaxHome RSS: yerbas07 2010

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