Definition of "hautboys" [hautboys]

• Plural form of hautboy. (noun)

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• "The music of viols and hautboys and horns transported me out of the box where I was a little girl in a dirty dress and into that scene so completely, I thought I was dreaming."
• "Then fared forward to the fight each renowned knight, and the hosts clashed together in their might, whilst the earth for all its wideness was straitened because of the multitude of the cavaliers and ears were deafened by drums and cymbals beating and pipes and hautboys sounding and trumpets blaring and by the thunder of horse-tramp and the shouting of men."
• "The trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and cannon made such harmony as never was heard in hell itself."