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shawm
[ shawm ]
noun
- an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe.
shawm
/ ʃɔːm /
noun
- music a medieval form of the oboe with a conical bore and flaring bell, blown through a double reed
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Origin of shawm1
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Example Sentences
Cornemuse is a bagpipe; shalmye is a shawm, which was a wind-instrument, being derived from Lat.
A figure is given (Galpin, p. 159) of a goat playing on a shawm from a carving of the twelfth century at Canterbury.
The name is believed to be derived from calamaula, a reed-pipe, which was corrupted to chalem-elle and then to shawm.
The shawm rang out yearningly beneath the pale expanse of an unsympathetic heaven.
The shawm was silent, the herdsman bent questioningly over the wall and Kurwenal made answer.
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