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hautbois

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Borrowed from French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautboy.

noun hautbois

Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.
Similar: oboe
Any of the (now obsolete) predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais. Then [her voice] became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautbois.

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@misc{hautbois_2026,
  title = {hautbois},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hautbois},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}