Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the melodies or signals of the Swiss herdsmen, commonly played on the alpenhorn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the
Alpine horn , and sometimes sung.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of numerous simple, but very
irregular ,melodies of theSwiss mountaineers , blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.
Etymologies
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French, the ranks or rows of cows, the name being given from the fact that the cattle, when answering the musical call of their keeper, move towards him in a row, preceded by those wearing bells.
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