Definitions for castanets

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castanets cas·ta·net

Spelling: [kas-tuh-net]

IPA: /ˌkæs təˈnɛt/

Castanets is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 294 anagrams from letters in castanets (aacensstt).

Definitions for castanets

noun

1. either of a pair of concave pieces of wood held in the palm of the hand and clicked together, usually to accompany dancing.
2. either of a pair of concave pieces of wood held in the palm of the hand and clicked together, usually to accompany dancing.

Origin of castanets

1640-50; Spanish castañeta, equivalent to castañ(a) chestnut (Latin castanea) + -eta diminutive suffix; see -et, -ette

Examples for castanets

That vulgar girl is singing the castanet song in the second act at this moment.

The castanet player does not sing; but his four colleagues have good voices, and, in glees, harmonize charmingly.

I turned to Scipio, standing by the low-boy, his teeth, going like a castanet.

There again was castanet, a partisan leader in a voluminous peruke and with a taste for controversial divinity.

Where the two were missing he carried the stem of his pipe, and when he talked the stem clicked, like a castanet.

My teeth were actually chattering in my head, with a castanet accompaniment to my discomfort.

And now the trio was a trio of castanet smacks and cymbal claps.

The kettle drum and the castanet were in common use among them, and pictures of girls playing on the lute are not infrequent.

The accompaniment of the castanet gives employment to their upraised arms.

He shook the door by the iron handle until the latch clattered like a castanet: there was no sound from within.

Furious blasts clutched at the windows, and rattled them like castanets.

She hummed a tune to herself, rattling a pair of castanets slightly now and then.

My teeth chattered like castanets, jarring in my jaws until it was painful.

The sound of the castanets seemed to make her alive all over.

She was to warn them with her castanets the instant she caught sight of the patrol.

I expected to hear your teeth chattering together like castanets.

And thereupon, he hurled his cap at the wall, and snapped his fingers like castanets.

This is danced by a man and a woman, and the castanets are used.

Two or three, standing close to him, can hear his teeth clacking like castanets!

I told her I should have liked to see her dance, only there were no castanets to be had.