flageolet

¹ American  

[flaj-uh-let, -ley] / ˌflædʒ əˈlɛt, -ˈleɪ /

noun

1. a small end-blown flute with four finger holes in front and two in the rear.

2. any fipple flute.

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flageolet ² American  

[fla-zhaw-le] / fla ʒɔˈlɛ /

noun

French.

flageolets plural

1. a green baby lima bean.

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flageolet ¹ British  

/ ˌflædʒəˈlɛt /

noun

1. a high-pitched musical instrument of the recorder family having six or eight finger holes

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flageolet ² British  

/ ˈflædʒəˌleɪ /

noun

1. the pale green immature seed of a haricot bean, cooked and eaten as a vegetable

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Etymology

Origin of flageolet

1650–60; < French, spelling variant of Old French flajolet, equivalent to flajol flute (< Vulgar Latin *flabeolum, derivative of Latin flāre to blow ² ) + -et -et

Example Sentences

Ahmed Suliman, who runs his namesake cafe, serves a Middle Eastern menu of cabbage rolls, flageolet bean stews and chicken hindquarter with shatta and garlic sauce.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

He swaddles roasted lingcod in salty, slightly crisp prosciutto-like French ham and nestles the package among flageolet beans cooked to creaminess in a ham hock broth.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2017

Son Hector was allowed to toy with the flute, the flageolet, the guitar, but medicine was to be his profession.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bogus lectures on anatomy are given by horn-spectacled Dr. Rockwell, who also plays a flageolet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three of us among the servants made a little consort of music—I on the violin, an indentured Irishman who also played the fiddle, and a slave from another house who played the flageolet.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson