samisen, shamisen
(noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shamisen (plural shamisens or shamisen)
(musical instrument) A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.
• jamisen, jabisen (used mainly in reference to archaic forms of the instrument from the Ryukyu Islands)
• sangen
Source: Wiktionary
28 May 2025
(noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; “an air of mystery”; “the house had a neglected air”; “an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate’s headquarters”; “the place had an aura of romance”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
