bombarde

/ ˈbɒmˌbɑːd /

noun

1. an alto wind instrument similar to the oboe or medieval shawm, used mainly in Breton traditional music

Word History and Origins

Origin of bombarde¹

French, from bombard , in the sense of booming sound

Example Sentences

"La plus grande infamie dont l'histoire moderne ait garde la souvenir, s'accomplit à cette heure, Paris est bombardé."

From Project Gutenberg

And to-night, after clams on the banks, as perilous an expedition as battle itself!" cried Morrisson, while the Bombarde and her companions, joining the other crowd of Rochelois women, repeated in chorus the following psalm, led by the pastor: "O, Lord do guide these feeble women, With souls ablaze, inflamed as strong men!

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The pastor arrived at that moment upon the ramparts at the head of his troop of women whom the Bombarde and her companions had joined.

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As the Bombarde was uttering these last words, the detonations of several discharges of artillery that shattered the window panes in the City Hall announced the enemy was about to renew the cannonade which it had suspended in the morning.

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Deep darkness favored their march under the guidance of a fisherman's wife who bore the nickname of the Bombarde, by reason of her having extinguished one of the enemy's projectiles.

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