hautboy
Americannoun
noun
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Also called: hautbois strawberry. haubois. a strawberry, Fragaria moschata, of central Europe and Asia, with large fruit
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an archaic word for oboe
Other Word Forms
- hautboyist noun
Etymology
Origin of hautboy
1565–75; < Middle French hautbois, equivalent to haut high ( see haughty) + bois wood ( see bush 1)
Vocabulary lists containing hautboy
Example Sentences
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On the other side of the room, two players were dancing a jig to a time played on an hautboy.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
She was still in arms when the combined airs of a violin and a hautboy caught her ear.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
That these boys be divided into three classes, viz., six for wind instruments, such as the hautboy, bassoon, and German flute.
From Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe by Defoe, Daniel
How such skill came to Pan Klen on the hautboy, the organ, and various other instruments which he understood, it was difficult to discover.
From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
They are not the soft sounds of the flute or the hautboy that I hear, but the sweeter notes of nature's own music.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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