hunting horn

hunting horn

noun Music.
the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.

Origin:
1685–95
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Hunting horn is always a great word to know.
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passage at the end of a composition used to bring it to a satisfactory close
note having one eighth of the time value of a whole note
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hunting horn
 
n
1.  See horn a long straight metal tube with a flared end and a cylindrical bore, used in giving signals in hunting
2.  an obsolete brass instrument from which the modern French horn was developed

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