n.
A brass instrument consisting of a long cylindrical tube bent upon itself twice, ending in a bell-shaped mouth, and having a movable U-shaped slide for producing different pitches.
[French, from Italian, augmentative of tromba, trumpet, of Germanic origin.]
trombonist trom·bon'ist n.
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