balalajka
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of balalaika.
Example Sentences
- "Every Cossack is a born dancer, and the merry tinkle of a “balalajka” band eventually proved too much for the colonel (a grey-haired veteran of over six feet), who suddenly rose from his seat, hurriedly left the messroom, and the next moment was wildly “pirouetting” amongst his men with, notwithstanding a flowing robe and spurs, the grace and agility of a ballet-girl."
- "The Bayans and Balalajkas of the BERYOZKA FOLK DANCERS"
- "Praising the “play of thought” in Dostoevskij’s work since Crime and Punishment he exclaims: “Well, what sort of playing was there in Poor Folk? One string, and even that on a balalajka.”"
- "My deceased aunts and uncles, / Playing “Balalajkas”, / Sipping glasses of wine?"
- "In the Novgorod uezd (Gruzinskaja volost’), for example, whole groups of ‘gypsy’ girls dressed in brightly coloured frocks and shawls would appear in the village streets going from house to house, dancing and singing gypsy songs to a balalajka and accordion accompaniment."
- "[…] kruglolitsa” with an accompaniment by balalajkas, domras and a bajan."