Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
shawm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
shawm .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
shawm .
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Examples
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The musicians playing the virginal, the dulcimer, and the trilling shalm were familiar, but Gord couldn't recall their names.
Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987
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[35] "The shalm, or shawm, was a wind instrument, like a pipe, with a swelling protuberance in the middle."
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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