Thesaurus: oboe

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1. n. One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
2. n. a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
3. One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy. Oboe d'amore Etym: [It., lit., oboe of love], and Oboe di caccia Etym: [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel.
4. One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yetof great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone,somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded bymeans of a double reed; a hautboy. Oboe d'amore Etym: [It., lit.,oboe of love], and Oboe di caccia Etym: [It., lit., oboe of thechase], are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often foundin the scores of Bach and Handel.
5. n:100 n. a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece