ghungroo

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi घुँघरू (ghuṅghrū).

Noun

ghungroo (plural ghungroos)

  1. (music) A small metallic bell, usually part of a set strung together and worn on an anklet, especially by classical Indian dancers.
    • 2021, “On the Ghungroos: Ankle-bells of Servitude, and Mastery”, in Donovan Roebert, editor, Essays on Classical Indian Dance, CRC Press, →ISBN:
      Every dancer cherishes her ghungroos, and no wonder. From the time she first learnt to use her feet in step, they have been with her in ever-increasing numbers, and now, at the height of her artistic maturity, two-hundred or more adorn her ankles where once there had been only ten or twenty.
    • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 158:
      His other meagre finds include a lone ghungroo—a tiny silver orb that once belonged on an anklet—and what might have once been a copper nose pin.