Pandean pipes
English
Noun
Pandean pipes pl (plural only)
- Panpipes.
- 1875, William Henley, Notes on the Firth:
- Pandean pipes whereon the winds would play,
- Long rows of chimney-pots the ridges crown;
- And black on slates and skylights flicker and frown
- Shadows of smoke that streams and wings that sway.
- 1875, William Henley, To Me at my Fifth-floor Window:
- To me at my fifth-floor window
- The chimney-pots in rows
- Are sets of pipes pandean
- For every wind that blows;
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