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OBOES
Noun
oboes
plural of oboe
Anagrams
• Booes, Boose, OOBEs, boose
Source: Wiktionary
OBOE
O"boe, n. Etym: [It., fr. F. hautbois. See Hautboy.] (Mus.)
Definition: 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. Oboe d'amore Etym: [It., lit., oboe of love], and Oboe di caccia Etym: [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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