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hautboy
[ hoh-boi, oh-boi ]
hautboy
/ ˈəʊ²úɔɪ /
noun
- Also calledhautbois strawberryhauboisˈəʊ²úɔɪ a strawberry, Fragaria moschata, of central Europe and Asia, with large fruit
- an archaic word for oboe
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hautboy1
C16: from French hautbois, from haut high + bois wood, of Germanic origin; see bush 1
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On the other side of the room, two players were dancing a jig to a time played on an hautboy.
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The king and his courtiers dined to the music of timbrels, trumpets, and hautboys, and he reviewed his troops in the presence of carriages full of fair faces.
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His father was a musician employed as hautboy player in the Hanoverian guard.
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Besides the buglers, a corps of drummers formed the other part of each military band, together with players upon the hautboys, Chinese fifes, and serpent horns.
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"More music in the clink of her horses' hoofs than twenty hautboys."
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