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double-reed
[ duhb-uhl-reed ]
/ ˈdʌb əlˈrid /
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adjective Music.
of or relating to wind instruments producing sounds through two reeds fastened and beating together, as the oboe.
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Origin of double-reed
First recorded in 1875–80
Words nearby double-reed
double predestination,
double printing,
double quatrefoil,
double-quick,
double quotes,
double-reed,
double refraction,
double-ring,
double-ripper,
double room,
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How to use double-reed in a sentence
“We quietly did,” Reed previously told The Daily Beast of removing ISIS.
He gets up and goes over to their table and introduces himself, and he says, ‘Hello, I’m Oliver Reed.
And Ollie says, ‘Oh, I see, well, let me have two double vodka martinis.’
A few weeks after returning from England, I was trolling the dairy section and came across the Cotswold Double Gloucester.
He went on to say that even such double horrors had never kept cops from continuing on.
Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
All things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective.
The way was under a double row of tall trees, which met at the top and formed a green arch over our heads.
The wretched young man persistently exercises his right of crying "Banco," and so practically going double or quits each time.
British Dictionary definitions for double-reed
adjective
relating to or denoting a wind instrument in which the sounds are produced by air passing over two reeds that vibrate against each other
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