Definition of "hautbois" [hautbois]

• Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds. (noun)
• Any of the, now obsolete, predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais. (noun)

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• "I rather pleased Jones by saying that the hautbois was the clarionet with a cold in its head, and the bassoon the same with a cold on its chest."
• "The reeds were double "hautbois" reeds all set in a wooden stock or box within the bag; by means of regulators or slides, called _layettes_, moving up and down in longitudinal grooves round the circumference of the barrel, the length of the drone pipes could be so regulated that a simple harmonic bass, consisting mainly of the common chord, could be obtained."
• "The two musicians, having finished tuning their hautbois and flutes, began to rehearse."