shalm
English
editNoun
editshalm (plural shalms)
- Obsolete form of shawm.
- 1827, Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert:
- These few words were continually repeated, and to describe the sound, it was as if you heard forest-horns and shalms sounded together from a far distance.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Paris flings up her windows, claps hands, as the Avengers, with their shrilling drums and shalms tramp by....
References
edit- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “shalm”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
editIrish
editNoun
editshalm m
- Lenited form of salm.