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Definition of Ocarina
1. Noun. Egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
Definition of Ocarina
1. n. A kind of small simple wind instrument.
Definition of Ocarina
1. Noun. (musical instruments) A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes. ¹
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Definition of Ocarina
1. a wind instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ocarina
Literary usage of Ocarina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"... Ac. ocarina, a recent Italian toy-instrument of flute-like sound, made of
pottery, and shaped like the body of a bird ( without head or neck). ..."
2. Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments by Frederick Stearns, Albert Augustus Stanley (1921)
"ocarina. Soprano in F France The conical body with mouth-piece at one ... ocarina.
Alto in D Austria Similar in every respect to the preceding but larger. ..."
3. Poet Lore (1907)
"(Trills and runs on the ocarina.) Dance away, and dance till you are tired! ...
(To the tones of the ocarina, which Michael plays, Pippa makes some si our, ..."
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