hautbois

American  

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

noun

plural

hautbois

1. hautboy.

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Example Sentences

Sometimes, and more than once too often, he composed, to use his own expression, "by the leeside of a bowl of punch, which had overset every mortal in company, except the hautbois and the muse."

From Methods of Authors by Erichsen, Hugo

Deeds exist creating charges for four hautbois and musettes de Poitou in the hand of King John, middle of 14th century, see p.

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

There was a concert, in the course of which a hautbois concerto2821 was so charmingly played that I could have thought myself upon enchanted ground, had I had spirits more gentle to associate with.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

If he saw there any one playing on the hautbois, the rebeck, or the bagpipes, he would, for a patard, have them teach him the way to make music on these instruments.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

It was they who gave us the dulcimer, the hautbois and the guitar; it was they who invented the serenade.

From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl