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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| basset horn | |
| —n | |
| an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family | |
| [C19: probably from German Bassetthorn, from Italian bassetto, diminutive of | |
basset horn
clarinet pitched a fourth lower than the ordinary B clarinet, probably invented in about 1770 by A. and M. Mayrhofer of Passau, Bavaria. The name derives from its basset ("small bass") pitch and its original curved-horn shape (later supplanted by an angular form). Its bore is narrower than that of the E alto clarinet, and it has a downward extension of compass to the low F of the bass voice (written as C). The boxwood instrument is usually built to order, in straight form with upturned bell
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