What does shawm mean?
Shawm means A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body..
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/ʃɔːm/ · noun
A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body..
And all the field is thick with companies Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes And gather honey of the yellow fruits Between the branches waxen soft and wide
There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.
Use shawm when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shawm means A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body..
Common synonyms include zurna.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And all the field is thick with companies Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes And gather honey of the yellow fruits Between the branches waxen soft and wide
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