Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
trumpet .
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Examples
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_ The sense seems as above; the commentators say that _giovani di tromba marina_ is a name given to those youths who go trumpeting about everywhere the favours accorded them by women; but the _tromba marina_ is a _stringed_ (not a wind) _instrument_, a sort of primitive violoncello with one string.] [Footnote 433: "Your teeth did dance like virginal jacks."
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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Gullapalli has won the spelling bee the past three years but stumbled on the word "tromba," an organ stop imitating the tone quality of a trumpet.
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It's also called the "nun's trumpet" because nuns were sometimes forbidden to play actual trumpets, and played the tromba marina instead.
Archive 2009-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009
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The name is misleading, as the tromba marina is actually a stringed instrument, seven or eight feet tall, with a single string and in some cases another sympathetic string.
Archive 2009-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009
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It's also called the "nun's trumpet" because nuns were sometimes forbidden to play actual trumpets, and played the tromba marina instead.
Nyckelharpa Walter Jon Williams 2009
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The name is misleading, as the tromba marina is actually a stringed instrument, seven or eight feet tall, with a single string and in some cases another sympathetic string.
Nyckelharpa Walter Jon Williams 2009
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Il brano, con Nils Petter Molvær alla tromba, si trova su Disconnected, album del 2004 dei Funkstörung.
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The tromba (waterspout) that I mentioned is nothing like the kind of phenomenon that comes up off a lake in a swirling motion like a tornado.
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Shortly after that, a tromba (waterspout over land) hit the area between Ajijic and San Juan Cosalá, dumping untold amounts of water onto the two towns in a period of only a few minutes.
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I remember that the tianguis was flooded, vendors rolled up their pants legs to the knees and waded into the roiling water to salvage their goods, and those of us who were brave enough to try to shop -- after the tromba passed and the sky cleared -- were soaked to the skin.
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