Hautboy

Quick meaning: Hautboy is a noun meaning (music) A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.

Meaning

(music) A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.

More Meanings

1. A tall-growing strawberry, Fragaria elatior, having a musky flavor.
2. (dated, music) An oboe or similar treble double reed instrument.

Example Sentences

So when they said yea to this, he called to him his player on the theorbo and his player on the hautboy, and commanded them saying, “Play me a solemn music.”

[…] even in a hautboy song, or any other where a particular instrument may have an obligato accompaniment, the voice ought to be every where assisted, but no where eclipsed.

I […] told John a Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court […]

In May we have strawberries, which continue in season two or three months. These are of the wood kind; very grateful, and of a good flavour; but the scarlets and hautboys are not known at Nice.

Word Forms

• hautboys
• haut-boy

Synonyms for hautboy

Depending on context, synonyms include oboe, hautbois.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oboe, treble, haut-boy, hoboy, heckelphone, highboy.

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