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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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hautboy
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tags: [music] [obsolete]
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Definition:the oboe
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There was never anything so gallant, so spruce, so brilliant, and so well disposed as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and cannon made music such as Hell itself had never heard.
Voltaire. Candide
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At the mere sound of her name, as in a fairy-tale, not a note would have issued from the brass; the flute and the hautboy would have been stricken with a sudden silence.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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