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Piccolo

//ˈpɪkəloʊ// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.

    "There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Italian.
Noun
  1. 1
    A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
  2. 2
    a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute wordnet
  3. 3
    An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
  4. 4
    A piccolo piano. obsolete
  5. 5
    A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.

    "[A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs."

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  1. 6
    A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox. New-York, Southern-US, US
  2. 7
    A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

Etymology 2

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian Piccolo.

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