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Hautboy   Listen
noun
Hautboy  n.  
1.
(Mus.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe.
2.
(Bot.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).





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"Hautboy" Quotes from Famous Books



... what a concourse swarms on yonder quay! The sky re-echoes with new shouts of joy; By all this show, I ween 'tis Lord Mayor's day; I hear the voice of trumpet and hautboy— No, now I see them near.—Oh, these are they Who come in crowds to welcome thee from Troy. Hail to the bard, whom long as lost we mourned From siege, from battle, and from ...
— The Age of Pope - (1700-1744) • John Dennis
... they swing violently as they sidle round in a kind of hop-skip-and-a-jump step, accompanied by singing in a most monotonous tone. This went on until midnight. This kind of dance dates, they say, from Celtic times. The music consists of the biniou or bagpipe, and the flageolet or hautboy, sometimes with the addition of a drum. The biniou, cornemuse, or bagpipe, is the national instrument of western and southern France. How it came to be introduced into Scotland and expel the harp—which was as much the original music of Scotland as of ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... hautboy player in Edinburgh—he is here instructing a band of music for a fencible corps quartered in this country. Among many of the airs that please me, there is one well known as a reel, by the name of "The Quaker's Wife"; and which I remember ...
— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... in complete steel, with lance in rest, and bearing her Medusa shield. Aristotle and Plato, Cicero and Virgil, all on horseback, with attendants in antique armor at their back, surrounded the daughter of Jupiter, while the city band, discoursing eloquent music from hautboy and viol, came upon the heels of the allegory. Then followed the mace-bearers and other officials, escorting the orator of the day, the newly-appointed professors and doctors, the magistrates and dignitaries, and the body of the citizens ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


Words linked to "Hautboy" :   double-reed instrument, oboe, double reed, hautbois, heckelphone, shawm, oboe d'amore, oboe da caccia, musette pipe, basset oboe


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