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mule bell en · NOUN

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1. A bell hung on a mule.
   • There is something wildly pleasing in listening to these ditties among the rude and lonely scenes that they illustrate, accompanied, as they are, by the occasional jingle of the mulebell. 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
   • The sounds of Moslem life are still; / No mule-bell tinkles down the hill; / Stretched in the broad court of the khan, / The dusty Bornou caravan / Lies heaped in slumber, beast and man […]. 1850, John Greenleaf Whittier, Derne:

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