clarino
noun
a valveless trumpet used in the 17th and 18th centuries for playing rapid passages in the high register.
clarinos
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pluralof clarino.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The trumpet is not on so large a caliber, and in the seventeenth century had its own family of two clarinos and three tubas.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
