bassoon

Etymology

From French basson.

noun

  1. A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
    Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

verb

  1. To play the bassoon.
  2. To make a bassoon-like sound.

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