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单词 french horn
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French horn


noun

a musical brass wind instrument with a long, coiled tube having a conical bore and a flaring bell.

Origin of French horn

First recorded in 1735–45

Words nearby French horn

French Guiana, French Guianese, French Guinea, French harp, French heel, French horn, French ice cream, Frenchify, French India, French Indochina, French kid
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Example sentences from the Web for French horn

  • The two old French-horn players were lying at the door soaking in the rain, but also asleep.

    A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire|J. T. Barber
  • A horrible screaming fiddle, a grumbling violoncello, and a deafening French-horn, composed the band.

    Letters from Spain|Joseph Blanco White
  • He then came home, talked eternally, and played upon the French-horn.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe

British Dictionary definitions for French horn

French horn

noun

music a valved brass instrument with a funnel-shaped mouthpiece and a tube of conical bore coiled into a spiral. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range: about three and a half octaves upwards from B on the second leger line below the bass staffSee horn
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for French horn

French horn

A mellow-sounding brass instrument, pitched lower than a trumpet and higher than a tuba.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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