"balalayka" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1918, Harold Tennyson R.N.: The Story of a Young Sailor Put Together by a Friend, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 196",
          "text": "We had an enormous brass band who played magnificently, and then a band of “balalaykas,” the Russian national instrument, accompanied with tambourines and wooden spoons, etc., and really a very pretty effect.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Jacob J. Hergert, “I Was Born Among the Russian Subversives”: A Saga of Why It Was Possible for the Bolsheviks to Effect the Transition from One Absolutism to Another; What Are We Facing?, Santa Barbara, Calif.: J. J. and A. J. Hergert, page 588",
          "text": "There were balalaykas, banduras, guitars and three different makes of accordions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Boris Thomson, The Art of Compromise: The Life and Work of Leonid Leonov, University of Toronto Press, page 49",
          "text": "When the Badgers cut the telegraph wires they cannot think of anything better to do than string them into their balalaykas.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Ferdinand Huszti Horvath, Captured!, Burtyrki Books",
          "text": "Then they sang, to the accompaniment of their balalaykas.",
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        "Alternative form of balalaika."
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  "word": "balalayka"
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          "ref": "1918, Harold Tennyson R.N.: The Story of a Young Sailor Put Together by a Friend, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 196",
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        },
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          "ref": "1967, Jacob J. Hergert, “I Was Born Among the Russian Subversives”: A Saga of Why It Was Possible for the Bolsheviks to Effect the Transition from One Absolutism to Another; What Are We Facing?, Santa Barbara, Calif.: J. J. and A. J. Hergert, page 588",
          "text": "There were balalaykas, banduras, guitars and three different makes of accordions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Boris Thomson, The Art of Compromise: The Life and Work of Leonid Leonov, University of Toronto Press, page 49",
          "text": "When the Badgers cut the telegraph wires they cannot think of anything better to do than string them into their balalaykas.",
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          "ref": "2020, Ferdinand Huszti Horvath, Captured!, Burtyrki Books",
          "text": "Then they sang, to the accompaniment of their balalaykas.",
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