Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.
- n. Any of the, now obsolete, predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
Etymologies
- From French hautbois (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I rather pleased Jones by saying that the hautbois was the clarionet with a cold in its head, and the bassoon the same with a cold on its chest.”
“The reeds were double "hautbois" reeds all set in a wooden stock or box within the bag; by means of regulators or slides, called _layettes_, moving up and down in longitudinal grooves round the circumference of the barrel, the length of the drone pipes could be so regulated that a simple harmonic bass, consisting mainly of the common chord, could be obtained.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
“The two musicians, having finished tuning their hautbois and flutes, began to rehearse.”
“There are no pressing questions about Bruckner performance like "With what shall we replace the Serpent?" or "What gives us the most authentic hautbois sound?”
“[16] See E. Thoinan, _Les Hotteterre et les Chèdeville, célèbres facteurs de flûtes, hautbois, bassons et musettes_ (Paris, 1894), p. 23.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
“It is probable, however, that M. Thoinan, who makes this statement, has not considered the possibility of the word _musette_ applying in this case to the small rustic hautbois or _dessus de bombarde_, also written _muse_,”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
“_Hautbois de Poitou_, a hautbois having the reed enclosed in an air-chamber, just as is the case with the reeds of the bag-pipe.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
“Anticyclonic movement; "Depression" on the hautbois; increase of wind; then thunder, lightning, rain -- all the elements at it!”
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891
“They danced in the castle courtyard, under our balcony, to the sound of hautbois and bagpipes.”
“My band consisted of a man who played on the _zourna_, or hautbois, a performer on the tambourine, and two who sang.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hautbois’.
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Organ Stops
A list of pipe- and pedal-organ stops. These have variously and perhaps at times capriciously been named and labelled by organ builders in Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, a...
diapason, double open diapason, sub-bourdon, double dulciana, bourdon, contra gamba, pyramidon, open diapason, stopped diapason, dulcis, dulciana, viol-di-gamba and 244 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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weirdly pronounced british family or ...
There was a young curate of Salisbury
Whose habits were quite halisbury-scalisbury
He'd go hiking in Hampshire
Without any Pampshire
Till the bishop insisted he walisburyworcester, leicester, grosvenor, featherstonehaugh, salisbury, towcester, marjoribanks, beauchamp, cholmondeley, gloucester, viscount, st john and 25 more...
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wilde
prudery, milieu, mephitic, putrefaction, equerry, carnelian, hydropic, antithetical, antinomian, facile, laburnum, tussore and 67 more...
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Words having the â sound in french
it this list I won't include words:
spelt with "-â-"
ending in "-as"
ending in "-ation"trois, rare, cadavre, roi, damner, condamner, passer, érafler, base, case, tasse, classe and 72 more...
Tweets
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sionnach hobbiss Aug 2, 2008