sackbut

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English

Sackbutts

Alternative forms

sacbut, sackbutt, sagbut, shagbolt, shakbusshe

Etymology

From French sacqueboute, from Middle French sacquer (“to push”) + bouter (“to pull”)

Noun

sackbut (plural sackbuts)

(music) A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.

Derived terms

Translations

brass instrument

Catalan: sacabutx (ca) m
Dutch: baroktrombone m or f
Esperanto: renesanctrombono, baroktrombono, sakbuto
French: sacqueboute (fr) f, sacquebute (fr) f, saquebute (fr) f
German: Posaune (de), Barockposaune f, Renaissanceposaune f, Sackbut n
Italian: sackbut m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sackbut, barokktrombone

Nynorsk: sackbut, barokktrombone
Occitan: sacabota f
Portuguese: sacabuxa (pt) m
Spanish: sacabuche m
Swedish: barocktrombon

See also

sackbut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sackbut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

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