French horn
noun
a musical brass wind instrument with a long, coiled tube having a conical bore and a flaring bell.
French horns
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pluralof French horn.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The orchestra for “A Little Night Music” contains three French horns — a budget-shattering luxury for any regional theater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
It was amazing thing to collaborate with an orchestra and have someone playing French horns over a synth horn that I constructed a melody, and have it come to life being mixed and mastered.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2022
He plays with these simple ingredients, but they’re quite weird put together: flutes, French horns, and synthesizers and saxophones.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2021
“Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” were John and Paul’s odes to Liverpudlian childhood: one an acerbic song of estrangement with a flute-like Mellotron, the other a collage of suburbia set to French horns.
From Economist ● Jun. 1, 2017
Last year, in Alsatia, there was seen and heard a German who played on two French horns at once, and gave airs in two parts, the first and the second, at the same time.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
