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A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments. examples
plural skiffles
Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”) quotations examples
This is when hardy divers such as American mergansers, goldeneyes, buffleheads, and scaup pay my lake a late staging visit, bobbing on the last patches of open water against the season's first skiffles of snow. Gradually the nights get [colder].
1999, Monte Hummel, Wintergreen: Reflections from Loon Lake