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Big band   /bɪg bænd/   Listen
Big band

noun
1.
A large dance or jazz band usually featuring improvised solos by lead musicians.





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"Big band" Quotes from Famous Books



... along the Platte and Powder rivers, and among troopers and linesmen nearer home there were odd glances, and nudging elbows whenever Burleigh's boastings were repeated. Even as far as department headquarters the story was being told that the mere report of "Big band of Sioux ahead" sent in by the advance guard, a report that brought Loring and Stone leaping nimbly out of the ambulance, rifle in hand and ready for business, sent Burleigh under the seat ...
— A Wounded Name • Charles King
... again. There were two at Rock Creek, but they were uninteresting—did not wear "chaps," pistols, or even big spurs. At the Bird-Tail not one sheep was to be seen—every one had been sheared, and the big band driven back to its range. Miss Duncan is a pretty girl, and unaffected, and will have a delightful visit at this Western army post, where young girls from the East do not come every day. And then we ...
— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe


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