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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Oboe \O"boe\, n. [It., fr F. hautbois. See {Hautboy}.] (Mus.)
One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra,
yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality
of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form but more
slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
{Oboe d'amore} [It., lit., oboe of love], and {Oboe di
caccia} [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete
modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of
Bach and Handel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hautboy \Haut"boy\, n. [F. hautbois, lit., high wood; haut high
+ bois wood. So called on account of its high tone. See
{Haughty}, {Bush}; and cf {Oboe}.]
1. (Mus.) 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}.
2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry ({Fragaria elatior}).
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
oboe
n : a slender woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed
mouthpiece [syn: {hautboy}, {hautbois}]
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