English-Thai Dictionary
shawm
N เครื่องดนตรี รุ่น โบรา ณ
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SHAWM
n.A hautboy or cornet; written also shalm, but not in use.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SHAWM
Shawm, n. Etym: [OE. shalmie, OF. chalemie; cf. F. chalumeau shawm, chaume haulm, stalk; all fr. L. calamus a reed, reed pipe. See Haulm, and cf. Calumet. ] (Mus. )
Defn: A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.
New American Oxford Dictionary
shawm
shawm |SHôm ʃɔm | ▶noun a medieval and Renaissance wind instrument, forerunner of the oboe, with a double reed enclosed in a wooden mouthpiece, and having a penetrating tone. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French chalemel, via Latin from Greek kalamos ‘reed. ’
Oxford Dictionary
shawm
shawm |ʃɔːm | ▶noun a medieval and Renaissance wind instrument, forerunner of the oboe, with a double reed enclosed in a wooden mouthpiece, and having a penetrating tone. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French chalemel, via Latin from Greek kalamos ‘reed ’.
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