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oboe d'amour

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o⋅boe d'a⋅mour

[duh-moor]
–noun
an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.

Origin:
1875–80; < It oboe d'amore lit., oboe of love
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