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- noun Plural form of
embouchure .
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Examples
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I love dresses, but when it's -30 degrees, and when I have to be squatting on the floor adjusting clarinet embouchures, pants are just more practical.
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John Lander entered Yoruba viâ Badagry and, triumphantly descending the lower Niger, made the sea by the “Nun” and Brass embouchures.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Bessarabia abutting upon the embouchures of the Danube, an International
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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Danube, with the exception of the Dobrudscha south of the latter river, at its embouchures, and on the _west_ and _north_ by the Carpathian mountains, along whose heights the boundary line runs.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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Between the 'Iron Gates' and its three embouchures, namely, the Khilia,
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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Two or three small openings that were noticed at the bottom of the bay are probably the embouchures of as many rivulets.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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The outline of the bay is broken by numerous smaller bays or arms, formed by the embouchures of streams, the most important being the Anse de
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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From Cape St. Jacques to Ha-tien, the coasts are again low and intersected by the numerous embouchures of the Me-kong, to the alluvial deposits of which this fertile section of Indo-China owes its existence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
Walt Whitman 1900
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Some of those refugees settled between the embouchures of the Ural River, others near the mouth of the Don.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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