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hautboy
[hoh-boi, oh-boi]
hautboy
/ ˈəʊɔɪ /
noun
Also called: hautbois strawberry. haubois.a strawberry, Fragaria moschata, of central Europe and Asia, with large fruit
an archaic word for oboe
Other 51Թ Forms
- hautboyist noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hautboy1
Example Sentences
On the other side of the room, two players were dancing a jig to a time played on an hautboy.
The king and his courtiers dined to the music of timbrels, trumpets, and hautboys, and he reviewed his troops in the presence of carriages full of fair faces.
His father was a musician employed as hautboy player in the Hanoverian guard.
Besides the buglers, a corps of drummers formed the other part of each military band, together with players upon the hautboys, Chinese fifes, and serpent horns.
"More music in the clink of her horses' hoofs than twenty hautboys."
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