Pandean pipes
English
editEtymology
editFrom Pan (Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man) + pipes.
Noun
editPandean pipes pl (plural only)
- Panpipes.
- 1875, William Henley, Notes on the Firth:
- Pandean pipes whereon the winds would play,
Long rows of chimney-pots the ridges crown;
And black on slates and skylights flicker and frown
Shadows of smoke that streams and wings that sway.
- 1875, William Henley, To Me at my Fifth-floor Window:
- To me at my fifth-floor window
The chimney-pots in rows
Are sets of pipes pandean
For every wind that blows;