flageolet

[flaj-uh-let, -ley]

noun

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

Origin of flageolet

1650–60; < French, spelling variant of Old French flajolet, equivalent to flajol flute (< Vulgar Latin *flabeolum, derivative of Latin flāre to blow²) + -et -et

flageolet

[fla-zhaw-le]

noun, plural fla·geo·lets

[fla-zhaw-le] /fla ʒɔˈlɛ/. French.

a green baby lima bean.

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Historical Examples of flageolet

Bob was an artist: he could paint, write, and play the flageolet.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13
Elbert Hubbard
And so to his flageolet again, finding a consolation in the sweetness of his own performance.
Doom Castle
Neil Munro
When one cannot whistle well it is better to use a flageolet.
The Natural History of Cage Birds
J. M. Bechstein
The notes perfectly resemble a run upwards on the flageolet.
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, v. 23
Various
There were sometimes other instruments—the flageolet and the triangle.
The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky
James Lane Allen

British Dictionary definitions for flageolet

flageolet

noun

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

Word Origin for flageolet

C17: from French, modification of Old French flajolet a little flute, from flajol flute, from Vulgar Latin flabeolum (unattested), from Latin flāre to blow

flageolet

flageolet bean

noun

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

Word Origin for flageolet

C19: from French fageolet, from Latin phaseolus bean; perhaps influenced by flageolet 1

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