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Glenn Miller's instrument
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trombone
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ From behind it we could hear the chirps and roars of invisible clarinets and trombones tuning up. ▪ His only modest joy in life comes from playing trombone with a third-rate jazz band in a seedy neighborhood pub. ▪ The trombone ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brass wind instrument, 1724, from Italian trombone , augmentative form of tromba "trumpet," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German trumba "trumpet;" see trumpet (n.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental ...
Usage examples of trombone.
Royal Flush took the ID a step further: Goines was a second-rate utility trombone, usually hired for fill-in duty.
Anyway, the accident was a little over twenty-four hours old and I was just getting around to checking out the trombone after all.
The vegetable-sellers, the organ-grinders, the woman practising her scales, the man playing the trombone, had all trundled away their barrows, pulled down their shutters, and closed the lids of their pianos.
It was very much a McCartney family affair: Jim played piano and trumpet and his brother Jack played trombone and there was also a cousin in the band.
Pana Srpen even owns a trombone, and Pana Galgoc and Pana Chytil can play various other instruments.
The Slovak who had provided his own trombone and the Slovak who had been assigned the cornet blared some kind of Slovak hurrah.
I put my trombone together and limbered it up, and we played for a while.
I had to read treble clef instead of bass and play it an octave down to fit trombone range.
He put down his book and watched me polish up the trombone and put it back in the case.
He assumed his mother meant in fact not the trombone, but the trombonist.
There lay his trombone, gleaming like a horn of gold, still sporting that wisp of whisker at the nethermost curve of its slide.
As if he were sleepwalking, Rintoul took his trombone and his mouse, and lumbered off into the kitchen.
Madoc leaned over to give the trombone player a shake, and found out why.
Anyway, the ensemble needed a horn and a trombone so they hired Wilhelm and Samson to fill in.
He had used his trombone case to smash in the front of the box which held the transmitting-and-receiving apparatus.