Definitions for hautboy

hautboy haut·boy

Spelling: [hoh-boi, oh-boi]
IPA: /ˈhoʊ bɔɪ, ˈoʊ bɔɪ/

Hautboy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in hautboy (abhotuy).

Definitions for hautboy

noun

  1. oboe1 (def 1).

Origin of hautboy

1565-75; Middle French hautbois, equivalent to haut high (see haughty) + bois wood (see bush1)

Examples for hautboy

It was this fact which had seemed so promising to young Lord hautboy.

The young Lord hautboy, her eldest son, was now just of age.

hautboy was very eager to let everybody know the truth at the Pandemonium.

Poor hautboy almost cried as he gave this account of his own misfortune.

The hautboy people were her own relations,—not her husband's.

Her voice is a contralto, but not deep, and with upper notes like a hautboy's.

Nearly allied to these are the clarionet, the hautboy, and bassoon.

The Seraph, with the clarion roll of his gay laughter, flung a hautboy at him.

"He's going to get well after all," said hautboy that evening, just before dinner.

The church bell was silent now, but the hautboy did not cease.

Word Value for hautboy
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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