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HAUTBOIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hautbois mean? 

HAUTBOIS (noun)
  The noun HAUTBOIS has 1 sense:

1. a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpieceplay

  Familiarity information: HAUTBOIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HAUTBOIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hautbois; hautboy; oboe

Hypernyms ("hautbois" is a kind of...):

double-reed instrument; double reed (a woodwind that has a pair of joined reeds that vibrate together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hautbois"):

basset oboe; heckelphone (an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe)

musette pipe (a small simple oboe)

oboe da caccia (an alto oboe; precursor of the English horn)

oboe d'amore (an oboe pitched a minor third lower than the ordinary oboe; used to perform baroque music)

shawm (a medieval oboe)


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