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hautboy

 
also haut·bois ('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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