Piccolo

Definitions

1. A surname from Italian.
2. A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
3. An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
4. A piccolo piano.
   obsolete
5. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
6. A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
   New-York, Southern-US, US
7. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

Equivalents

Examples

“[A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.”

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