Definitions for hautboys

hautboys haut·boy

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

Hautboys is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in hautboys (abhostuy).

Definitions for hautboys

noun

  1. oboe1 (def 1).

Origin of hautboys

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

Examples for hautboys

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for hautboys
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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