Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
piano or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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piano + -like
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Examples
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A teacher and performer of Middle Eastern music, Malley remembers answering a Lookingglass call for "somebody who could play the oud [a Middle Eastern lute], the harmonium [a miniature, pianolike instrument], the banjo, percussion, and could sing."
Improvisational days for the 'Arabian Nights' design team Jane Horwitz 2011
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Then, without a pianolike instrument, the whole idea of chords seemed almost foreign to the mostly polyphonic spell music of Erde.
The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997
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