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Definition of Trompe
1. a device used for supplying air to a furnace [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trompe
Literary usage of Trompe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The name of trompe is not exactly correct. The tongue is not hollow, and in fact
all that can be properly styled tongue is the little horny piece which ..."
2. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1875)
"127) avec la seule et singulière différence que dans celle-ci on ne voit pas la
phrase : si la mémoire ne me trompe pas, du discours indiqué par l'Hist. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"S'il existe beaucoup de variétés produites par l'effet des circonstances, ces
variétés ne dénaturent point les espèces : mais on se trompe, sans doute ..."
4. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"trompe'te; Fr. trom- pette; It. trom'ba.) An orchestral metal wind-instr. having a
tube of somewhat narrow scale, and a cupped mouthpiece ; the convolutions ..."
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