Definitions
a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
Word origin
An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).
Used in a sentence
“Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Double-reed instrument”4 letters
02“Double-reed woodwind”4 letters
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