hautbois

Borrowed from French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautboy.

hautbois (plural hautbois)

1. Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.
2. Any of the (now obsolete) predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 3,

     Then [her voice] became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautbois.

Used to mean oboe

• (organ stop): oboe

• hautboist

haut (“high (pitched)”) +‎ bois (“wood(wind)”)

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /o.bwa/

hautbois m (plural hautbois)

1. oboe
2. oboist

• hautboïste

• “hautbois” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).