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Definition of Flageolets
1. flageolet [n] - See also: flageolet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flageolets
Literary usage of Flageolets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"... sang.2 The real boatswain's call so much impressed the Papuans that they at
once offered a high price in gold for it.3 (t) FLUTES, FIFES, flageolets. ..."
2. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"... sang.2 The real boatswain's call so much impressed the Papuans that they at
once offered . a high price in gold for it.3 (*) FLUTES, FIFES, flageolets. ..."
3. Prehistoric Art; Or, The Origin of Art as Manifested in the Works of by Thomas Wilson, Edwin Porter Upham (1898)
"Bone whistles or flageolets,- -There are in the Museum a number of bone whistles
or flageolets, obtained from ancient graves on the California coast aud the ..."
4. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1821)
"There are viands, in the basket, beside the rower; and the mingled sounds of the
flageolets and guitar seem to steal upon your ear as you gaze at the happy ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"EVOLUTION OF ГНК EMBOUCHURE IN NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN flageolets. INSTRUMENT No.
76164 in the US National Museum, from the Cocopa Indians, is made of cane. ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"It may be noticed that in none of the flageolets mentioned has the maker sharpened
the edge of the lip or hole against which the wind impinges. ..."
7. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1884)
"Professor JS Cox says: " I cannot imagine what object they had in view for pitching
their flageolets in different tones, unless each instrument was intended ..."
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