pommer

From German Pommer, from Middle High German bumhart, from Italian bombarda.

pommer (plural pommers)

1. (music) An alto, tenor, or bass instrument of the shawm family.
   • 1900, Musical News, page 378:

     The treble pommer was the equivalent of our hautboy; the bass pommer corresponded to our bassoon. Midway between these lay the alto and tenor pommers, of which the former (the alto), was doubtless the forerunner of the cor anglais.

   • 1936, Ray Giles, «Here Comes the Band!», New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, page 176:

     The Emperor Sigismund, Pope John XXIII, and many other Church dignitaries and others high in the affairs of state, sat in the council which opened in that year and lasted until 1418. For this occasion there were gathered together some five hundred musicians who played on fifes, fiddles, trumps, trombones, and pommers.

   • 1948, The Monthly Musical Record, page 230:

     The Fleming Denis van Alsloot’s ‘Procession of the Religious Orders from the Town of Antwerp…’, painted in 1616 shows with excellent clarity six musicians playing a trombone, two alto pommers, a discant schalmey, cornetto, and a dulzian played on the left side with the right hand uppermost, the exact opposite to the dulzian’s descendant, the bassoon, which is played the other way round.

• Pommer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• (Langrois) pomer

From pomme.

IPA^(key): /põ.me/

pommer m (plural pommers)

1. (Troyen) apple tree, Malus

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes

From pomme +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.me/

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pommer

1. (of vegetables, especially cabbage and lettuce) to develop a fruit

• “pommer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.