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Noun

bansuri ‎(plural bansuris)

1. (music) A bamboo transverse flute used in the classical music of North India.
   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 94:

     A cool breeze began to blow, carrying on it the undulating notes of a bansuri from some village downriver.

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