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 ( see haughty) + bois wood ( see bush 1)
Vocabulary lists containing hautboy
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 "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
His father was a musician employed as hautboy player in the Hanoverian guard.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
He sat down, played again, again the vanishing voice of the hautboy was heard in the silence of night, and over the snow.
From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Of the orchestral players the drum was the noisiest; though the hautboy and the piccolo were every whit as emphatic.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.
Afterward came six players on the hautboy clothed in sarcinet of a violet crimson.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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