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sagbut

sagbut is the alternative form of sackbut.

Meaning of sackbut

Noun

sackbut (plural sackbuts)

  1. A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.
    • Every instrument took part in the stately Pavane: the lutes and the dulcimers, and the theorbos, and the sackbuts, and the hautboys; the flutes sweetly warbling as birds in the upper air, and the silver trumpets, and the horns that breathed deep melodies trembling with mystery and tenderness that...1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 35

Forms of sagbut

pluralsagbuts

Questions about sagbut

What is sagbut the alternative form of?
Sagbut is the alternative form of sackbut.

Words near sagbut in the dictionary

  1. sagathy
  2. Sagay
  3. Sagbayan
  4. sagbend
  5. sagbends
  6. sagbut
  7. sagbuts
  8. sagdid
  9. sagdids
  10. Sagdlirmiut
  11. sage

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