hautboy

Dictionary: haut·boy

also haut·bois (hō'boi', ō'boi') pronunciation

n., pl., -boys, also -bois (-boiz').
An oboe.

[French hautbois, from Old French : haut, high; see haughty + bois, wood (of Germanic origin).]

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(Fr.).

‘Loud woodwind’: term for the smaller members of the shawm family, used in France and England after 1500; in the 17th century the name was taken into English as ‘oboe’.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
Synonyms: oboe, hautbois

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