Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See flute.

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Examples

  • This picture is offered up by a Princess Latifah at the Datalounge who describes herself as still wanting "a jewel encrusted nose-flute" (like the one the Persian Madame Butterfly has) and says:

    Catch-all 2010

  • It's surprising they haven't got Mongolian nose-flute music and the voice of God in there, too.

    First sight: Spector 2011

  • This picture is offered up by a Princess Latifah at the Datalounge who describes herself as still wanting "a jewel encrusted nose-flute" (like the one the Persian Madame Butterfly has) and says:

    A Different Stripe: 2008

  • This picture is offered up by a Princess Latifah at the Datalounge who describes herself as still wanting "a jewel encrusted nose-flute" (like the one the Persian Madame Butterfly has) and says:

    Catch all for 2.14.08 2008

  • But all those breathless commentaries three years ago when it started, about the fantastical, esoteric even, idea of getting to wear sharp 60s suits and thin knitted ties, and sit around at noon with a stiff whisky and three cigarettes on the go trying to come up with good ideas – that was my life; why were people treating it as if they'd stumbled upon the Peruvian nose-flute championships?

    Rewind TV: Derren Brown: Hero at 30,000 Feet; U Be Dead; Mad Men; Bouquet of Barbed Wire; This is England '86 2010

  • In a performance of this hula witnessed by an informant the chorus of dancers was composed entirely of girls, while the kumu operated the nose-flute and at the same time led the cantillation of the mele.

    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

  • "The tonal capacity of the Hawaiian nose-flute," says Miss

    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

  • In every nose-flute examined there have been two holes, one 2 or 3 inches away from the embouchure, the older about a third of the distance from the open end of the flute.

    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

  • The idea of using bamboo for this purpose must have been suggested by its previous use in the nose-flute.

    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

  • A nose-flute in the author's collection with the lower hole open produces the sound of [= f] #; with both holes unstopped it emits the sound

    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

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