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Hautbois

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.
  2. 2
    a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of the (now obsolete) predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais.

    "Then [her voice] became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautbois."

Etymology

Borrowed from French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautboy.

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