Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
orchestra .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
orchestra .
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- noun Obsolete form of
orchestra ..
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our chief of police had been _chef d 'orchestre_ of the military band of Manaos.
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Titanic, on connaissait la fin, et il y avait même un orchestre ...
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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Hermia brought forth her _orchestre_ and played for them; first the tunes she had practiced and afterward, as she gained new confidence in their appreciation, "Santa Lucia" and "Funiculi, funicula," to which
Madcap George Gibbs 1906
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He whistled the air; and then one of the attaches scraped out the melody on a fiddle, so that the quick-witted orchestra speedily composed l'air national des Americains a grand orchestre, and thereafter always played it as a counterbalance to
Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900
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Pour expliquer la tristesse de ce beau pays parsemé de châteaux vides, hanté par le souvenir des fêtes d'autrefois, il faudrait tout un orchestre.
The Lake 1892
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The _F-minor Sonata_ -- the so-called _Concert sans orchestre_ -- a truncated, unequal though interesting work; the _Arabesque_, the
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890
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At any rate, I hold that internal evidence seems to indicate that Op. 22, the "Grande Polonaise brillante precedee d'un Andante spianato avec orchestre," which was published in the summer of
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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Avant-scène des premières 5 fr.; orchestre 1 fr. 50 c.
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The boxes to the number of two hundred and twenty-two, are said to contain thirteen hundred persons; and the pit, including the _orchestre_, [1] seven hundred and twenty-four, making in all two thousand and twenty persons.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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Concertgebouworkest - Rhapsodie pour orchestre et clarinette principale
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