fife
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Items up for big include a private fife lesson with the resident fifer on the premises, table linens, getaways to other historically-minded spots, toy soldiers, golf packages, china, books — well, you get the idea.
From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2022
There was a “Spirit of ’76”—three men with fife and drum.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020
Here camp and its covert campaign of subversion feel wonderfully urgent and necessary: the gap-toothed fife player in the march toward “nonbinary.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019
Giroud, by the way, has his head taped like he had to put down his fife and drum to come on.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2018
Then he entered in haste, and made a bed of furs that he took out of an old chest, and built up a fife, and cleaned Therem’s wounds and bound them.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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