maraca
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- noun
- /məˈrɑːkə/
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maraca
- The children picked up their maracas and began to shake them to the rhythm of the music.
- shake maracas
- maraca instrument
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- But this is not how it sounds because it sounds like this Morocco in Spanish maracas.
Examples
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The percussion instruments used were tambourines, woodblocks, maracas, and triangles.
Academic text (2003) -
Megan is doing a lot of dancing with sweeping arm movements around the space while holding the maraca.
Academic text (2015) -
We wanted him to put maracas on a track.
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Now, you use your eyes to decide whether it was a maraca or an egg shaker.
Academic text (2015) -
He plays maracas on "Medicine Sunday."
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Stephen suggests that they play the maracas in an eighth-note ostinato throughout the piece.
Academic text (2012) -
Actually, John played acoustic, Paul played bass and piano, George played maracas, and Ringo played drums.
Blog text (11) -
When the señorita left, she took my last pair of maracas.
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The murals show one man banging a drum, while others blow flutes and shake maracas.
Academic text (2011) -
Give the members of this group some handheld percussion instruments, such as a tambourine, triangle, blocks, bongos, maracas, and so on.
Academic text (2014)
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Etymology
The word maraca comes from a South American Indigenous word maracá that means 'shaker'. So a maraca is literally a 'shaker', a hollow gourd or small container filled with beans or seeds that you shake to make music.