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fipple

[ fip-uhl ]

noun

, Music.
  1. a plug stopping the upper end of a pipe, as a recorder or a whistle, and having a narrow slit through which the player blows.


fipple

/ ˈfɪpəl /

noun

  1. a wooden plug forming a flue in the end of a pipe, as the mouthpiece of a recorder
  2. a similar device in an organ pipe with a flutelike tone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fipple1

1620–30; perhaps special use of dial. fipple loose lower lip, pouting lip; compare Old Norse flipi lower lip of a horse, Norwegian flipe flap, lappet. See flip 1, flap, flabby
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fipple1

C17: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

The tone is the true flute tone, brilliant and sympathetic.54 The old English fipple flute, or fl�te � bec, is described under the headings Recorder and Flageolet.

Musicians sat in the corner: a jar-drum, a tambourine, trumpets, and a fipple flute.

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