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Oboe

//ˈəʊbəʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

    "Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent."

  2. 2
    radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter O.
  3. 3
    Initialism of off-by-one error. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece wordnet

Etymology

An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).

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