Associations to the word «Hautbois»
Noun
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Wiktionary
HAUTBOIS, noun. Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.
HAUTBOIS, noun. Any of the (now obsolete) predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais.
Dictionary definition
HAUTBOIS, noun. A slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.