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shawm
[ shawm ]
noun
- an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe.
shawm
/ ʃɔːm /
noun
- music a medieval form of the oboe with a conical bore and flaring bell, blown through a double reed
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shawm1
C14 shalmye, from Old French chalemie, ultimately from Latin calamus a reed, from Greek kalamos
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Example Sentences
Cornemuse is a bagpipe; shalmye is a shawm, which was a wind-instrument, being derived from Lat.
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A figure is given (Galpin, p. 159) of a goat playing on a shawm from a carving of the twelfth century at Canterbury.
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The name is believed to be derived from calamaula, a reed-pipe, which was corrupted to chalem-elle and then to shawm.
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The shawm rang out yearningly beneath the pale expanse of an unsympathetic heaven.
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The shawm was silent, the herdsman bent questioningly over the wall and Kurwenal made answer.
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