Hautboy
101clarinet — 1768, from Fr. clarinette (18c.), dim. of clarine little bell (16c.), from fem. of adj. clarin, from clair, cler (see CLEAR (Cf. clear)). The instrument said to have been invented c.1700 by J.C. Denner of Nuremberg, Germany. Alternative form… …
102oboe — (n.) 1724, from It. oboe, from phonetic spelling of M.Fr. hautbois (itself borrowed in English 16c. as hautboy), from haut high, loud, high pitched (see HAUGHT (Cf. haught)) + bois wood (see BUSH (Cf. bush) (n.)). So called because it had the… …
103hautbois — n. oboe, hautboy (Music) …
104oboe — n. Hautboy …
105pipe — n 1. tube, cylinder, conduit, duct, conveyor, reed, straw, stem; pipette, catheter, funnel, tubule, fistula, nipple; passage, capillary, artery, vein; hose, garden hose, rubber hose; flue, chimney, smokestack; gas pipe, gasline, pipeline,… …
106oboe — o•boe [[t]ˈoʊ boʊ[/t]] n. mad a woodwind instrument having a slender conical, tubular body and a double reed mouthpiece • Etymology: 1690–1700; < It < F hautbois=haut high +bois wood; cf. hautboy o′bo•ist, n …
107oboe — /ˈoʊboʊ / (say ohboh) noun 1. a woodwind instrument in the form of a slender conical tube, in which the tone is produced by a double reed. 2. a reed stop in an organ which sounds like an oboe. {Italian, from French hautbois hautboy} –oboist, noun …
108oboe — [18] The oboe gets its name from its high pitch. Its ultimate ancestor was French hautbois, a compound of haut ‘high’ and bois ‘wood’ (the oboe is a woodwind instrument). English acquired this in the 16th century as hautboy, but from the 18th… …
109oboe — [ō′bō] n. [It < Fr hautbois; see HAUTBOY] 1. a double reed woodwind instrument having a range of nearly three octaves and a high, penetrating, melancholy tone 2. an organ stop producing an oboelike sound oboist n …
110basset oboe — noun an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe • Syn: ↑heckelphone • Hypernyms: ↑oboe, ↑hautboy, ↑hautbois * * * noun Etymology: Italian bassetto …
