wind chime

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Noun

wind chime (plural wind chimes)

  1. A set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind.
    • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86:
      By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
  2. (music, percussion) One tubular bell.

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