flageolet
1[flaj-uh-let, -ley]
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noun
a small end-blown flute with four finger holes in front and two in the rear.
any fipple flute.
Origin of flageolet
1flageolet
2[fla-zhaw-le]
noun, plural fla·geo·lets [fla-zhaw-le] /fla ʒɔˈlɛ/. French.
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Bob was an artist: he could paint, write, and play the flageolet.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13Elbert Hubbard
And so to his flageolet again, finding a consolation in the sweetness of his own performance.
Doom CastleNeil Munro
When one cannot whistle well it is better to use a flageolet.
The Natural History of Cage BirdsJ. M. Bechstein
The notes perfectly resemble a run upwards on the flageolet.
There were sometimes other instruments—the flageolet and the triangle.
The Blue-Grass Region of KentuckyJames Lane Allen
flageolet
1noun
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
2flageolet bean
noun
Word Origin for flageolet
C19: from French fageolet, from Latin phaseolus bean; perhaps influenced by flageolet 1
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