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- noun Plural form of
mirliton .
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Examples
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Later in the evening, the whole party armed itself with larger or smaller 'mirlitons' (reed-pipe whistles), and on these small monotonous instruments, sometimes made of sugar, they played, after the fashion of Russian horn music, the overture to 'Demophon,' two frying-pans representing the drums.”
The Great Italian and French Composers Ferris, George T 1878
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It was a tradition at my family on Sunday we would fry chicken, with eggplant, mirlitons, and shrimp, so I would go home and get that.
40 More Years James Carville with Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2009
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It was a tradition at my family on Sunday we would fry chicken, with eggplant, mirlitons, and shrimp, so I would go home and get that.
40 More Years James Carville with Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2009
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When I was thirty-four and married to my second husband, I picked through fresh green mirlitons at Winn Dixie, also called alligator pears, and I remembered my boyfriend, Rob.
When I Lived There. 2008
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When I was thirty-four and married to my second husband, I picked through fresh green mirlitons at Winn Dixie, also called alligator pears, and I remembered my boyfriend, Rob.
When I Lived There. 2008
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Add salt, pepper, herbs and drained mirlitons to pan and stir until the contents look like a somewhat watery mush.
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Forgot to say that the sausage and shrimp should be added with the mirlitons too.
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They sold many things: nougat, _pain d'èpices_, mirlitons, hoops, drums, noisy battledoors and shuttlecocks; and little ten-sou hand-mirrors, neatly bound in zinc, that could open and shut.
Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865
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The air was full of the scent of trodden grass and macaroons and French tobacco, blown from the park; of gay French laughter and the music of _mirlitons_; of a light dusty haze, shot with purple and gold by the setting sun.
Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865
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The other recipes we use are passed down from a friend's grandmother in Louisiana, who used to pickle okra, mirlitons
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