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bombardon

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bom⋅bar⋅don

  [bom-ber-duhn, bom-bahr-dn]
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–noun
1. a bass reed stop on a pipe organ.
2. a large, deep-toned, valved, brass wind instrument resembling a tuba.
Origin:
1855–60; < It bombardone wind instrument, equiv. to bombard(o) an oboelike instrument, orig., mortar (see bombard ) + -one aug. suffix
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bom·bar·don   (bŏm'bər-dŏn', bŏm-bär'dn)   
n.  

  1. A brass instrument resembling a tuba but with a lower pitch; a bass or contrabass tuba.

  2. A 16- or 32-foot reed stop on an organ.


[French, from Italian bombardone, augmentative of bombardo, alteration of bombarda, bombard, from Medieval Latin; see bombard.]
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