atauaque
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atauaque m (plural atauaques)
- Archaic form of atabaque.
- c. 1344, Pedro Afonso, Count of Barcelos, Terceiro Livro de Linhagens[1]:
- E os gritos deles e das trõbas e anafijs e d'altãcaros e atauaques e gaitas asi reteniã que parecia que as mõtanhas se areygauã de todas partes.
- And the cry of them and their buisines and trumpets and frame drums and kettledrums and fifes would resound in a way that the mountains seemed to tremble as a whole.