Etymology

hoboy

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Today it means: A hautboy or oboe. Full definition →

French hautbois
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The story

  1. French · derived fromhautbois
  2. English todayhoboy

From French hautbois.

Words from the same roots

Frenchhautbois all →

hautbois

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.