Violone

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An early stringed instrument similar to a double bass.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian violone (“big viola”), from viola + -one (“-oon, forming augmentatives"”).

Related phrases

double bassdouble bass violstringed instrument

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