Clarionet
[klæriә'net]
Definition
(n.) See Clarinet.
Edited by Barrett
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a claironet, foretells that you will indulge in frivolity beneath your usual dignity. {I}f it is broken, you will incur the displeasure of a close friend.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet—two clarionets.
Typed by Barack
Examples
- When they arrived there, they found the old man practising his clarionet in the dolefullest manner in a corner of the room. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Doubtful which might be the clarionet-stop, he was considering the point, when a shuttlecock flew out of the parlour window, and alighted on his hat. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And what's this with a clarionet? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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