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Definition of Hautboy

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

Definition of Hautboy

1. n. A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.

Definition of Hautboy

1. Noun. (dated musical instruments) The oboe. ¹

2. Noun. (music) A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound. ¹

3. Noun. A tall-growing strawberry, ''Fragaria elatior'', having a musky flavour. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hautboy

1. an oboe [n -BOYS] - See also: oboe

Medical Definition of Hautboy

1. 1. 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. A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior). Origin: F. Hautbois, lit, high wood; haut high + bois wood. So called on account of its high tone. See Haughty, Bush; and cf. Oboe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Hautboy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Church Music in America: Comprising Its History and Its Peculiarities at by Nathaniel Duren Gould (1853)
"hautboy. The next instrument was the hautboy, the fingering much the same as the flute; but the wind, being communicated through a delicate reed, ..."

2. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1798)
"The fruit of F. elatior is the real hautboy, of a dark livid red, very round, and with a musky perfume, not ihe Carolina or Chili Strawberry, ..."

3. Marion Fay: A Novel by Anthony Trollope (1882)
"... Castle hautboy, "Mv DEAR CLARA,— November gtk. "I don't know that there is anything further to be done about Fanny. As for divorcing her from your heart ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... hautboy or oboe, trumpet, vox- humana (all in unison with the open diapason), clarion (an octave above the diapason and in unison with principal). ..."

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