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chalumeau
[ shal-yuh-moh; French sha-ly-moh ]
noun
- Music. the low register of the clarinet.
- a 17th- or 18th-century woodwind instrument.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chalumeau1
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Example Sentences
Then one day his father brought him to see his aunt—who had married Monsieur Chalumeau, my uncle, you see?
Madame Chalumeau's face, glossy and red-and-white like a Norman apple, wore an expression of anxious expectation.
Good Madame Chalumeau climbed down from her chair with a generous display of fat, black woollen legs and unpinned her skirt.
Madame Chalumeau flopped her omelet again, slid it to a platter and set a carafe of cider on the table.
Madame Chalumeau had risen, and had led her guest through the sitting-room into her immaculate kitchen.
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