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- noun Plural form of
clarionet .
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Examples
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A pleasure-barge, decked with a white awning and streamers, glided down the river, with a party, the sound of whose horns and clarionets sounded on the breeze, while every grove was made vocal by the plaintive songs of innumerable nightingales.
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We got rid of all gloom in the excitement of the exercise, and our pleasure was increased by the arrival of the Gimerton band, mustering fifteen strong: a trumpet, a trombone, clarionets, bassoons, French horns, and a bass viol, besides singers.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
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Before the dishes were placed upon the table by the two clerks of the kitchen, the great doors at the bottom of the Hall were thrown open to the sound of trumpets and clarionets, and the Duke of Wellington, as lord high constable, the Marquis of Anglesey, as lord high steward, and
Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip
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On returning towards the landing-place, we met numbers of Greek ladies and gentlemen with guitars and clarionets coming up to pass the evening in singing and dancing upon the green turf.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
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That was the age before organs were thought of in Methodist places of worship; other musical instruments obtained in those good old times: fiddles and bass viols, clarionets, flutes, hautboys, cornets, trombones, bassoons and serpents, delighted the ears and stirred the souls of our forefathers with their sacred harmony.
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell
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All this time the drums, cymbals, and clarionets were unceasing in their discordant sounds, and, before long, fairly drove me from the field.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 Various
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The local choir of fiddles and clarionets, &c., was not equal to so great an occasion, and a choir of singers from Cambridge attended, and chanted the Psalms and sang the Coronation Anthem.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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Their band generally consists of wind, instruments, resembling clarionets and hautboys, to which they add cymbals and drums.
Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder
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As time went on, the old man made some fine guitars, violins, flutes, clarionets, piccolos -- all sorts of instruments he made.
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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