sackbut
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sackbut
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From French sacqueboute, from Middle French sacquer (“to pull”) + bouter (“to push”).
noun sackbuts · sacbut · sackbutt · sagbut · shagbolt · shakbusshe
- A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet. Every instrument took part in the stately Pavane: the lutes and the dulcimers, and the theorbos, and the sackbuts, and the hautboys; the flutes sweetly warbling as birds in the upper air, and the silver trumpets, and the horns that breathed deep melodies trembling with mystery and tenderness that sh
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noun brass instrument
| Español | sacabuche |
|---|---|
| Português | sacabuxa |
| Français | sacqueboute, sacquebute, saquebute |
| Deutsch | Posaune, Barockposaune, Renaissanceposaune, Sackbut |
| Italiano | sackbut |
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