hautbois
Americannoun
plural
hautboisExample Sentences
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We must await some more conclusive explanation, but we may suppose that the new name was bestowed when the instrument assumed a form entirely new to the family of hautbois or oboes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
This, however, proves only that the name was not familiar in France, where the oboe of the same pitch was called haute-contre de hautbois.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
It is probable that in France, where the hautbois played such an important part in court music, the cor anglais, under the name of haute-contre de hautbois, was also provided with keys.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
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
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
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