trutruca
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Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Mapudungun trutruka.
Noun
trutruca f (plural trutrucas)
- a wind instrument of the Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina, traditionally made from a long tube of colihue (“bamboo”)
- 2017 July 28, “Cultura”, in Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Chile):
- Más al sur, en los márgenes de La Frontera, diversos testimonios en el ámbito religioso como el guillatun y el machitun dan cuenta de la influencia del pueblo mapuche que, al igual que en la producción musical de la región, se expresan a través del uso del cultrun, la trutruca y el trompe.
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