Definition of hautboy in English:

hautboy

noun ˈ(h)əʊbɔɪ

archaic form of oboe
Example sentencesExamples
- The hautbois or ‘highwood’ as the direct translation would have it, came to us through its stages of hautboy, dropping the ‘h’ and altering vowels to oboe.
- Other timbres no longer carry their original significance: cornets for dignitaries not high enough in rank to merit trumpets, hautboys for banquets, consorts of flutes or recorders for rituals of death and transfiguration.
- His power over his instrument is surprising; the tones he draws from it might be thought those of the sweetest flageolet and hautboy, and sometimes of the human voice.
- His voice had been likened to an oboe, the Elizabethan hautboy.
- Shakespeare's stage directions call for 'hautboys', the English form of the French hautbois, meaning literally 'high wood'.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French hautbois, from haut 'high' + bois 'wood'.

Rhymes

doughboy, lowboy

Definition of hautboy in US English:

hautboy

(also hautbois)

noun

archaic form of oboe
Example sentencesExamples
- The hautbois or ‘highwood’ as the direct translation would have it, came to us through its stages of hautboy, dropping the ‘h’ and altering vowels to oboe.
- Shakespeare's stage directions call for 'hautboys', the English form of the French hautbois, meaning literally 'high wood'.
- His voice had been likened to an oboe, the Elizabethan hautboy.
- His power over his instrument is surprising; the tones he draws from it might be thought those of the sweetest flageolet and hautboy, and sometimes of the human voice.
- Other timbres no longer carry their original significance: cornets for dignitaries not high enough in rank to merit trumpets, hautboys for banquets, consorts of flutes or recorders for rituals of death and transfiguration.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French hautbois, from haut ‘high’ + bois ‘wood’.

词汇	hautboy
释义	Definition of hautboy in English: hautboy noun ˈ(h)əʊbɔɪ archaic form of oboe Example sentencesExamples The hautbois or ‘highwood’ as the direct translation would have it, came to us through its stages of hautboy, dropping the ‘h’ and altering vowels to oboe. Other timbres no longer carry their original significance: cornets for dignitaries not high enough in rank to merit trumpets, hautboys for banquets, consorts of flutes or recorders for rituals of death and transfiguration. His power over his instrument is surprising; the tones he draws from it might be thought those of the sweetest flageolet and hautboy, and sometimes of the human voice. His voice had been likened to an oboe, the Elizabethan hautboy. Shakespeare's stage directions call for 'hautboys', the English form of the French hautbois, meaning literally 'high wood'. Origin Mid 16th century: from French hautbois, from haut 'high' + bois 'wood'. Rhymes doughboy, lowboy Definition of hautboy in US English: hautboy (also hautbois) noun archaic form of oboe Example sentencesExamples The hautbois or ‘highwood’ as the direct translation would have it, came to us through its stages of hautboy, dropping the ‘h’ and altering vowels to oboe. Shakespeare's stage directions call for 'hautboys', the English form of the French hautbois, meaning literally 'high wood'. His voice had been likened to an oboe, the Elizabethan hautboy. His power over his instrument is surprising; the tones he draws from it might be thought those of the sweetest flageolet and hautboy, and sometimes of the human voice. Other timbres no longer carry their original significance: cornets for dignitaries not high enough in rank to merit trumpets, hautboys for banquets, consorts of flutes or recorders for rituals of death and transfiguration. Origin Mid 16th century: from French hautbois, from haut ‘high’ + bois ‘wood’.
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