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Meanings of fife in anglès

Double reed musical instrument with a conical bore, of the oboe family.

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Examples for "piffero"
Examples for "piffero"
1
Higher and higher, nearer and nearer to the impossible, rose the quick, piercing notes of the piffero.
Peter Ibbetson
2
When I reached Bologna, I put myself under a certain Maestro Ercole del Piffero, and began to earn something by my trade.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Usage of fife in anglès
1
You of all men to be condemned to a fife like this.
The Mountebank
2
We have a servant who will accompany us on a wooden fife.
The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
3
But it is-letme see-yes, it is more that fife years ago.
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
4
Well, he should give her death too-her lord of fife and death.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac: The Story of a Lost Napoleon. Volu...
5
A fife whined out, going down to our marrows with its shrillness.
Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
6
It's chiefly about me and my fife, and Hanson and his drum.
The Yankee Tea-party; Or, Boston in 1773
7
Many a night Nataline's fife of fun played a feeble, wheezy note.
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
8
The drum and the fife could be heard in all directions.
Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
9
The bugle, the violin, the fife and drum, furnished all the musical entertainments.
Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer
10
Panting and excited, they tightened up the drum and tried the fife softly.
The Junior Classics, Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
11
But at length the fife ceased playing, and the children stopped.
Dreamland
12
A noise of drum and fife fortunately breaks up the session.
Biographical Sketches / (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces")
13
A local fife band struck up The Men Of The West.
The Irish Times
14
By that, I hadn't meant that he should arrive with drum and fife.
Seize the night
15
Then two figures, one playing a fife, the other a drum.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
16
It was the fife that could stir the heart in you!
The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories
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