Piccolo

Quick meaning: Piccolo is a noun meaning (music) A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

Meaning

(music) A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

More Meanings

1. (music) An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
2. (music, obsolete) A piccolo piano.
3. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
4. (US, chiefly Southern US and New York) A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
5. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.
6. Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.

Example Sentences

[A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.

There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.

Word Forms

• piccolos
• piccoli

Synonyms for piccolo

Depending on context, synonyms include busser, omnibus, snipe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bit, little, small, pianino, spinet, fortepiano.

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