From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hautboy \Haut"boy\ (h[=o]"boi), n. [F. hautbois, lit., high
wood; haut high + bois wood. So called on account of its high
tone. See {Haughty}, {Bush}; and cf. {Oboe}.]
1. (Mus.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and
similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone.
Now more commonly called {oboe}. See Illust. of {Oboe}.
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2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry ({Fragaria elatior}).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Oboe \O"boe\, n. [It., fr. F. hautbois. See {Hautboy}.] (Mus.)
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.
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{Oboe d'amore} [It., lit., oboe of love], and {Oboe di
caccia} [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete
modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of
Bach and Handel.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oboe
n 1: a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical
bore and a double-reed mouthpiece [syn: {oboe}, {hautboy},
{hautbois}]
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