Hautboy

//ˈhəʊˌbɔɪ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An oboe or similar treble double reed instrument. dated

    "I […] told John a Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court […]"

  2. 2
    a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece wordnet
  3. 3
    A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.
  4. 4
    A tall-growing strawberry, Fragaria elatior, having a musky flavor.

    "In May we have strawberries, which continue in season two or three months. These are of the wood kind; very grateful, and of a good flavour; but the scarlets and hautboys are not known at Nice."

Etymology

From Middle French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautbois.

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