embouchure

• Oboe players produce vibrato by adjusting air flow and embouchure, or the shape of their lips. —  Slate Magazine
• Daylight and darkness come with a rush in those latitudes, and by the time that the Rosario Islands were abeam the eastern sky had paled from indigo to white that, even as one looked, became flushed with a most delicate and ethereal tint of blush rose, which in its turn warmed as rapidly to a tone of rich amber, against which a cluster of mangrove-bordered islands, occupying what looked like the embouchure of a river, suddenly revealed themselves a point or two on the weather bow. —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
• In every nose-flute examined there have been two holes, one 2 or 3 inches away from the embouchure, the older about a third of the distance from the open end of the flute Illustration: FIG. —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
• These instruments are sounded by being blown in at the end, and the tone is created by vibrating reeds, whereas in the flute it is the result of the impinging of the air on the edge of the hole called the embouchure, and the consequent stirring of the column of air in the flue of the instrument. —  How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art
• Its position was south of the Gyndes embouchure, and it might be reckoned as lying upon either river. —  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

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