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trom⋅bone

  [trom-bohn, trom-bohn]
–noun
a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone).
Origin:
1715–25; < It, equiv. to tromb(a) trumpet (< Pr < Gmc; cf. OHG trumpa, trumba horn, trumpet) + -one aug. suffix

Related forms:
trom⋅bon⋅ist  [trom-boh-nist, trom-boh-] , noun
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trombone

A brass instrument; the player can change its pitch by sliding one part of the tube in and out of the other. The tone of the trombone is mellower than that of the trumpet.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

trombone 
brass wind instrument, 1724, from It. trombone, augmentative form of tromba "trumpet," from a Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. trumba "trumpet;" see trumpet).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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