: a small transverse flute with six to eight finger holes and usually no keys
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Fourth of July celebration – Jul. 4 Past celebrations have included fireworks, fife and drum performances and festive decor, which are included with standard park admission.—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024 Participants include the local School of Rock and Suzuki School of Music.
Southbury’s Heritage Village offers more than two dozen performers, including members of the Mohegan Tribe, square dancers, Chinese drummers and a fife and drum band.—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2024 And the air is filled with the sound of fife and drum.—John Kaag, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024 Tarrant turned the second-story apartment into a broader historical museum, with numerous war artifacts, including his great grandfather’s diaries and sketches from the Civil War, along with his drum and fife.—Susan Glaser, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for fife
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Etymology
German Pfeife pipe, fife, from Old High German pfīfa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa pipe — more at pipe
administrative area of eastern Scotland between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth area 509 square miles (1319 square kilometers), population 365,198
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