Flageolet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small flutelike instrument with a cylindrical mouthpiece, four finger holes, and two thumbholes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of small flute.
  • n. A type of kidney bean, common in France.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A musical instrument of the flute or whistle class, in which the tone is produced by a stream of air striking against a sharp edge. It consists of a mouthpiece, usually a bulb in which the tone is produced, and a tube with six finger-holes. Its compass is a little more than two octaves upward from the G next above middle C. It is not now used in the orchestra. It is the representative of the ancient and medieval flute, its immediate precursor being the recorder. It is often called a flûte-à-bec, in distinction from the modern German or transverse flute. The penny whistle is a cheap form of it.
  • n. In organ-building, a stop, usually of 2-feet tone, giving high fluty tones.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried
  • n. a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes
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