hautbois

American  

[hoh-boi, oh-boi] / ˈhoʊ bɔɪ, ˈoʊ bɔɪ /

noun

plural

hautbois

1. hautboy.

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Example Sentences

I rather pleased Jones by saying that the hautbois was the clarionet with a cold in its head, and the bassoon the same with a cold on its chest.

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel

When the author indicated the altos with the basses, the hautbois with the violins, these copyists undertook to make the necessary modifications.

From On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music by Saint-Saëns, Camille

The tubes of all the members of the hautbois family are straight in this drawing.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

Alvaro Daman, the Portuguese captain, went to wait upon the admiral in his boat, accompanied by kettle drums, trumpets, and hautbois, and courteously offered him every assistance in his power.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

BARNET, Mr., on the intercrossing of strawberries. -dioeciousness of the hautbois strawberry. -on the Scarlet American strawberry.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles