flageolet
1 Americannoun
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a small end-blown flute with four finger holes in front and two in the rear.
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any fipple flute.
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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
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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
Bogus lectures on anatomy are given by horn-spectacled Dr. Rockwell, who also plays a flageolet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Son Hector was allowed to toy with the flute, the flageolet, the guitar, but medicine was to be his profession.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once, when he had come on Alan unawares, he heard him playing the flageolet.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
It was in September, so all the ingredients were in season: courgettes, tomatoes, green beans, peas, basil, flageolets – and loads of garlic.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019
To the west, the neighborhood was older, full of businesses like Le Cristal, a grotty, busy brasserie where a creaky-voiced waitress served me roast lamb in a flood of flageolets.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2011
She also cooks dinner at home around 6:30, relying on bourgeois fare like gigot with flageolets.
From Time Magazine Archive
In front was a ragamuffin corps of drummers and men extracting ear-racking noises from metal instruments that looked like flageolets, but were not.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Penfield, Frederic Courtland
The flageolets from Java are all made on the principle of the boy's elder whistle, but have finger-holes—generally six, but sometimes only four.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
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