Associations to the word «Castanet»

Wiktionary

CASTANET, noun. (musical instruments) (chiefly in the plural) A single handheld percussion instrument, from of a pair of concave shells joined on one edge by string.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats