Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of orchestra.

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  • noun See orchestra.

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  • noun Obsolete form of orchestra..

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • Our chief of police had been _chef d 'orchestre_ of the military band of Manaos.

    In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Algot Lange

  • Titanic, on connaissait la fin, et il y avait même un orchestre ...

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • Hermia brought forth her _orchestre_ and played for them; first the tunes she had practiced and afterward, as she gained new confidence in their appreciation, "Santa Lucia" and "Funiculi, funicula," to which

    Madcap George Gibbs 1906

  • He whistled the air; and then one of the attaches scraped out the melody on a fiddle, so that the quick-witted orchestra speedily composed l'air national des Americains a grand orchestre, and thereafter always played it as a counterbalance to

    Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900

  • Pour expliquer la tristesse de ce beau pays parsemé de châteaux vides, hanté par le souvenir des fêtes d'autrefois, il faudrait tout un orchestre.

    The Lake 1892

  • The _F-minor Sonata_ -- the so-called _Concert sans orchestre_ -- a truncated, unequal though interesting work; the _Arabesque_, the

    Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890

  • At any rate, I hold that internal evidence seems to indicate that Op. 22, the "Grande Polonaise brillante precedee d'un Andante spianato avec orchestre," which was published in the summer of

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Avant-scène des premières 5 fr.; orchestre 1 fr. 50 c.

    Paris and Northern France 1867

  • The boxes to the number of two hundred and twenty-two, are said to contain thirteen hundred persons; and the pit, including the _orchestre_, [1] seven hundred and twenty-four, making in all two thousand and twenty persons.

    Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

  • Concertgebouworkest - Rhapsodie pour orchestre et clarinette principale

    AvaxHome nhocdien12345 2010

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