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Wiktionary

  1. n. music The American name for a coiled brass musical instrument derived from the French hunting horn, having rotary valves.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France cor de chasse.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

Etymologies

  1. From French + horn. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “An unexpected beat on a snare drum made a French horn splutter out a belching sound, and in the back of the band something big emitted a snort, one that made Lisa think of a blue whale that had just surfaced after a week underwater.”

    Simon & Schuster: Bubble in the Bathtub

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Words with the same meaning

  1. Viennese horn

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  1. brass instrument
  1. brass

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. horn
  1. corno di caccia
  1. waldhorn
  1. althorn
  1. hornist
  1. brass instrument
  1. mellophone
  1. orchestrina di camera

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