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fluviol

fluviol noun: a small piccolo-like wooden flute used to accompany the sardana.

Noun

fluviol (plural fluviols)

  1. A small piccolo-like wooden flute used to accompany the sardana.
    • They are danced to the music of a curious orchestra of eleven instruments. The uppermost of these instruments is the fluviol, which is the melodic agent in the primitive combination of two instruments performed upon by the same player.1929 August 11, Olin Downes, “As to the Sardanas”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Sardanas begin with an improvised fluviol solo introduction of ten measures.2008, Robert Francis Waters, Déodat de Séverac: Musical Identity in Fin de Siècle France, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 177

Forms of fluviol

pluralfluviols

Origin of fluviol

Borrowed from Catalan fluviol.

Questions about fluviol

What does fluviol mean?
Fluviol means a small piccolo-like wooden flute used to accompany the sardana.
What part of speech is fluviol?
Fluviol is a noun.
What is the plural of fluviol?
The plural of fluviol is fluviols.

Words near fluviol in the dictionary

  1. fluviographs
  2. fluviography
  3. fluviokarst
  4. fluviokarstic
  5. fluviokarsts
  6. fluviol
  7. fluviolacustrine
  8. fluviological
  9. fluviologist
  10. fluviologists
  11. fluviology

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