Definition of hautboy

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Hautboy (n.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe..

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Hautboy :: Hautboy (n.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).
Hautboyist :: Hautboyist (n.) A player on the hautboy.
Wait :: Wait (v. i.) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular..
Hautboy :: Hautboy (n.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe..
Hoboy :: Hoboy (n.) A hautboy or oboe.
Oboe :: Oboe (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy..
Shawm :: Shawm (n.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form..
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