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hautboy

Meaningoboe

Common meaning: old name for the oboe

Journey through time

  1. Old Frenchhautboissource
  2. Frenchhautbois‘oboe’source
  3. Englishhautboy‘old name for the oboe’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old French hautbois ‘oboe’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry HAUTBOY, p. 257 · dictionary scan

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