Meaning of shawm | Babel Free

Definitions

A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.

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Examples

“And all the field is thick with companies Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes And gather honey of the yellow fruits Between the branches waxen soft and wide”

“There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.”

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