hautboy
Americannoun
noun
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Also called: hautbois strawberry. haubois. a strawberry, Fragaria moschata, of central Europe and Asia, with large fruit
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an archaic word for oboe
Other Word Forms
- hautboyist noun
Etymology
Origin of hautboy
1565–75; < Middle French hautbois, equivalent to haut high ( haughty ) + bois wood ( bush 1 )
Example Sentences
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On the other side of the room, two players were dancing a jig to a time played on an hautboy.
From Literature
The king and his courtiers dined to the music of timbrels, trumpets, and hautboys, and he reviewed his troops in the presence of carriages full of fair faces.
From Project Gutenberg
His father was a musician employed as hautboy player in the Hanoverian guard.
From Project Gutenberg
Besides the buglers, a corps of drummers formed the other part of each military band, together with players upon the hautboys, Chinese fifes, and serpent horns.
From Project Gutenberg
"More music in the clink of her horses' hoofs than twenty hautboys."
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