shawm
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From Middle English shalmuse, from Old French chalemel (modern French chalumeau), from Late Latin calamellus, from Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of caramel and chalumeau, as well as related to calame, calamus, culm, and haulm.
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shawm (plural shawms)
- A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked:
- There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.
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wind instrument
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