plural shanties
: a small crudely built dwelling or shelter usually of wood
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Noun (2)
lived just off the beach in a crude shanty
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Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
After a medley of sea shanties and swash-buckling tunes, Zimmer received a standing ovation before heading into intermission.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
But the second movement unlocked the rhetorical qualities essential to Beethoven’s self-referential classic — the striding melody dissipating into a whisper, squirrelly strings introducing a minor-key woodwind shanty, a coda that seemed to shrug genially.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2024
The Connecticut Sea Music Festival brings shanties and more to Essex, and Connecticut Virtuosi and guest artists are telling the history of Brazil with music and dance.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
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Noun
In contrast with Jokowi, a former carpenter raised in a shanty and Indonesia’s first leader without military or political connections, Prabowo is very much of elite stock.
—Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
After a medley of sea shanties and swash-buckling tunes, Zimmer received a standing ovation before heading into intermission.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
But the second movement unlocked the rhetorical qualities essential to Beethoven’s self-referential classic — the striding melody dissipating into a whisper, squirrelly strings introducing a minor-key woodwind shanty, a coda that seemed to shrug genially.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2024
The Connecticut Sea Music Festival brings shanties and more to Essex, and Connecticut Virtuosi and guest artists are telling the history of Brazil with music and dance.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
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“Shanty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shanty. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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