Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cylindrical glass vessel with a short, wide neck and large mouth, used to contain anatomical specimens and the like, preserved in spirits.
- noun The mouthpiece of a brass musical instrument, as a horn, a trumpet, or a trombone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the
cor anglais ,bassoon , andcontrabassoon ) to the rest of the instrument - noun A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, given that high-school band instruments have been around since roughly the time of the ancient Sumerians ( "I don't care who your father is, Ur-Nungal, I will bump you to fifth clarinet if you don't sit up") without any evidence of major bocal-induced pandemics, one might ask why Rep. Donato is suddenly concerned about this now.
Infirmary Blues Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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It's the word Celine used to refer to Sartre in l'Agité du bocal.
Claire Devarrieux: Public Enemies: The "Principal Whipping Boys" of France Claire Devarrieux 2011
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Now, given that high-school band instruments have been around since roughly the time of the ancient Sumerians ( "I don't care who your father is, Ur-Nungal, I will bump you to fifth clarinet if you don't sit up") without any evidence of major bocal-induced pandemics, one might ask why Rep. Donato is suddenly concerned about this now.
Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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The ensemble includes a lasso d'amore--one of those ridged plastic tubes you whirl around your head, the pitch depending on how fast--and a tromboon, a slide trombone fitted with a bassoon bocal.
Lulu Sings To Berg, With Love sfmike 2009
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But that doesn't stop us from savoring the latest bocal de bonheur, * and toasting to la petite voisine Janine.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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But that doesn't stop us from savoring the latest bocal de bonheur, * and toasting to la petite voisine Janine.
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But that doesn't stop us from savoring the latest bocal de bonheur, * and toasting to la petite voisine Janine.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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I've read the score but never heard the piece, which also uses tromboon, a slide trombone fitted with a bassoon bocal and reed.
Junkestra sfmike 2007
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Tu peux mettre des marrons, des champignons (cèpes ou morilles, on en trouve en bocal séché).
French Word-A-Day: 2004
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Tu peux mettre des marrons, des champignons (cèpes ou morilles, on en trouve en bocal séché).
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