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
A fife and drum corps marched in 18th-century finery.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2021
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
All around us I see candlelight flickering to fife from window to glassless window, and here and there the locals light small fires along the edges of alleys.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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