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An oboe or similar treble double reed instrument.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
Examples
- 1694, uncredited translator, The Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland by Friderich Martens in An Account of Several Late Voyages & Discoveries to the South and North, London: Sam Smith and Benjamin Walford, Chapter 1, p. 12, When after this manner any have lost their Ships, and cannot be seen, they discharge a Cannon from the Ship, or sound the Trumpets, or Haut-boys, according as they are provided in their Ships, that the men that are lost may find their Ship again.
- 1816, William Hazlitt, “Theatrical Debuts,” The Examiner, 20 October, 1816, in A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover (eds.), The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, London: J.M. Dent, 1903, p. 341, The notes proceed from her mouth as mechanically, as unmitigated by the sentiment, as if they came from the sharp hautboy or grating bassoon.
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A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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A tall-growing strawberry, Fragaria elatior, having a musky flavor.
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a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: oboe, hautbois
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Broader terms: double-reed instrument, double reed
Narrower terms: heckelphone, basset oboe, musette pipe, oboe da caccia, oboe d'amore, shawm
From Middle French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautbois.
