bombarde

British  

/ ˈbɒmˌbɑːd /

noun

1. an alto wind instrument similar to the oboe or medieval shawm, used mainly in Breton traditional music

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Etymology

Origin of bombarde

French, from _bombard , in the sense of booming sound

Example Sentences

Deep darkness favored their march under the guidance of a fisherman's wife who bore the nickname of the Bombarde, by reason of her having extinguished one of the enemy's projectiles.

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Due to her often dragging for oysters and clams, which abounded on our coasts, the Bombarde was acquainted with the safe passages between the rocks and the quicksands that strewed the bay.

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Thereupon she and the Bombarde, who had just lighted a link dipped in sulphur set fire to the first bundles of wood and straw.

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And to-night, after clams on the banks, as perilous an expedition as battle itself!" cried Morrisson, while the Bombarde and her companions, joining the other crowd of Rochelois women, repeated in chorus the following psalm, led by the pastor: "O, Lord do guide these feeble women, With souls ablaze, inflamed as strong men!

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It was in answer to the thunder of the cannonade, which announced an imminent and decisive attack, that the old pastor crossed the square of the City Hall at the head of his bevy of Rochelois women, recruited the Bombarde and her companions, and wended his course to the Bastion of the Evangelium.

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