hautboy
[hoh-boi, oh-boi]
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Origin of hautboy
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Nearly allied to these are the clarionet, the hautboy, and bassoon.
Popular Technology; Volume 2Edward Hazen
The young Lord Hautboy, her eldest son, was now just of age.
Marion FayAnthony Trollope
The Hautboy people were her own relations,—not her husband's.
Marion FayAnthony Trollope
Hautboy was very eager to let everybody know the truth at the Pandemonium.
Marion FayAnthony Trollope
Poor Hautboy almost cried as he gave this account of his own misfortune.
Marion FayAnthony Trollope
hautboy
- Also called: hautbois strawberry, haubois (ˈəʊbɔɪ) a strawberry, Fragaria moschata, of central Europe and Asia, with large fruit
- an archaic word for oboe
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Word Origin for hautboy
C16: from French hautbois, from haut high + bois wood, of Germanic origin; see bush 1
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Word Origin and History for hautboy
1570s, from French hautbois "high wood" (15c.; see oboe). The "high" is haut in its secondary sense of "high-pitched." Frequently nativized as hoboy.
This Pageaunt waz clozd vp with a delectable harmony of Hautboiz, Shalmz, Coronets, and such oother looud muzik. [Robert Laneham, 1575]
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