Etymology

flugelhorn

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Today it means: A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves. Full definition →

German Flügelhorn
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  1. German · borrowed fromFlügelhorn
  2. English todayflugelhorn

Borrowed from German Flügelhorn, from Flügel (“wing, flank”) + horn.

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