What does cymbal mean?
Cymbal means (music) A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like..
Cymbal
/ˈsɪmbəl/ · noun
Meaning
(music) A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like..
Example Sentences
The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes, Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans, Make the sun dance.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Trumpets and Drums shall fright her from the Throne, As sounding Cymbals aid the lab'ring Moon.
I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang […]
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- cymbals
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The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes, Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans, Make the sun dance.
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