Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small flutelike instrument with a cylindrical mouthpiece, four finger holes, and two thumbholes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument of the flute or whistle class, in which the tone is produced by a stream of air striking against a sharp edge. It consists of a mouthpiece, usually a bulb in which the tone is produced, and a tube with six finger-holes. Its compass is a little more than two octaves upward from the G next above middle C. It is not now used in the orchestra. It is the representative of the ancient and medieval flute, its immediate precursor being the recorder. It is often called a flûte-à-bec, in distinction from the modern German or transverse flute. The penny whistle is a cheap form of it.
- noun In organ-building, a stop, usually of 2-feet tone, giving high fluty tones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.
- noun (Mus.) the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A type of small
flute . - noun A type of
kidney bean , common in France.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried
- noun a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Chinese flageolet is a tube measuring a little more than a foot in length.
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It is a winter dish because it is very hearty and uses preserved meats such as sausages and duck confit, cooked with white beans called flageolet.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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It is a winter dish because it is very hearty and uses preserved meats such as sausages and duck confit, cooked with white beans called flageolet.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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It is a winter dish because it is very hearty and uses preserved meats such as sausages and duck confit, cooked with white beans called flageolet.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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The flageolet was the latest form of the treble, beak, or whistle head flute.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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"The flageolet is the musical instrument of young men and is principally used in love-affairs to attract the attention of the maiden and reveal the presence of the lover," says Miss Alice
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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After playing a little upon my new little flageolet, that is so soft that pleases me mightily, betimes to my office, where most of the morning.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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After playing a little upon my new little flageolet, that is so soft that pleases me mightily, betimes to my office, where most of the morning.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, April 1668 Pepys, Samuel 1668
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After playing a little upon my new little flageolet, that is so soft that pleases me mightily, betimes to my office, where most of the morning.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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There is no one I envy so much as I do P; a cap and bells is a crown to him; a tune upon a flageolet is a concert; if the sun shines, he sports himself in its beams; if
Letters of the Late Lord Littelton Baron Thomas Lyttelton Lyttelton , William Combe 1812
hernesheir commented on the word flageolet
A dry bean, not in this case a French word for the Irish pennywhistle.
April 26, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word flageolet
Beans, beans. Or a musical flute.
The more you eat, the more you toot?
July 6, 2015
bilby commented on the word flageolet
See also larigot.
June 9, 2016