wind chime
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[edit]Noun
[edit]wind chime (plural wind chimes)
- A set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind.
- 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86:
- By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
- (music, percussion) One tubular bell.
Derived terms
[edit]- Alabama wind chime (offensive)
- Mississippi wind chime (offensive)