fife
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The two presidents celebrated the “ironclad alliance” amid fife and drums on the White House lawn ahead of their high-level meetings and a state dinner.
From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2023
When Daudet is unsuccessful in discovering the source of an old proverb, a fife player advises him to seek it in “the cicadas’ library,” meaning a field where one lies on one’s back and contemplates.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021
A fife and drum corps perform at King and Market streets before the parade passes through.
From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021
There was a “Spirit of ’76”—three men with fife and drum.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020
Her gentle efforts to guide the hand of destiny, by decoying her master with fertile tricks or by reticent considerations these had not bean strong enough to be recognized in the despotism of fife.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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