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flugelhorns

flugelhorns is the plural of flugelhorn.

Meaning of flugelhorn

Noun

flugelhorn (plural flugelhorns)

  1. A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.
    • A flugelhorn may be furnished in lieu of the Eb trumpet, a euphonium in lieu of one alto, one Eb alto saxophone, and one Eb baritone saxophone in lieu of two coronets...1900, Daniel E. McCarthy, Manual of Instructions for Quartermasters Serving in the Field

Questions about flugelhorns

What is flugelhorns the plural of?
Flugelhorns is the plural of flugelhorn.

Words near flugelhorns in the dictionary

  1. flufylline
  2. flugel
  3. flugelhorn
  4. flugelhornist
  5. flugelhornists
  6. flugelhorns
  7. flugelman
  8. flugelmen
  9. flugels
  10. flugestone
  11. Fluharty

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