piccolo
noun
a small flute sounding an octave higher than the ordinary flute.
piccolos
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pluralof piccolo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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More often, Ms. Frank deploys an unusual combination of instruments, such as piccolos and celesta, or a motif—like the short, repeated pulse that sounds like a cry—to create a dreamscape that is all her own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Band members received new uniforms, new drums and, most recently, new flutes and piccolos, all of it paid for by the district’s budget for the arts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
Cox brought it to a crest with hopeful strings, leaping piccolos and optimistic blasts from across the back of the orchestra.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
By the end, as Marnie sings “I’m free!” in upward-vaulting intervals, she is accompanied by an intricate, vital new sonority of piccolos, celesta, harp, and bowed crotales.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived--no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
