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Meanings of embouchure in English

Catalan
embocadura
Spanish
boquilla

The aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly.

embocadura
Usage of embouchure in English
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A concerned listener once asked: Why not take clarinet lessons to improve your embouchure?'
The Guardian
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The breath is projected into the embouchure with modulated force.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
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He delivers it with an open embouchure, head thrown back.
The new yorker
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This we were informed was the embouchure of the Somerset river from the Victoria N'yanza.
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of...
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The width of its embouchure suggests an Asiatic rival of the Amazon and La Plata.
The Awakening of China
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According to Marmol, Mamora was built by Jakob-el-Mansour to defend the embouchure of the river.
Travels in Morocco, Volume 2.
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It afterwards takes a southerly direction, before it reaches its embouchure in the Rio Grande.
The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
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Its position was south of the Gyndes embouchure, and it might be reckoned as lying upon either river.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: ...
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Furthermore it seemed now satisfactorily settled that all the inland rivers as yet discovered found the same common embouchure.
The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
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It had shoals off its embouchure; and these, he rightly enough fancied, would induce Captain Cuffe to be wary.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
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It's all about the embouchure.
The Irish Times
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You have a weak embouchure.
Rogues
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It has, from ten to twelve miles above its embouchure into Lake Ontario, one of the finest cataracts in the world.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, ...
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In vain I shifted my aching legs and worked my benumbed hands, looking out ahead for the embouchure of the river.
Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark a...
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Little or no water can descend to the Nile from this river, otherwise there would be some trifling current at the embouchure.
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of...
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The old Hwai embouchure, running from the Lake Hung-tseh to the sea, no longer exists; it dissipates itself in canals and salt flats.
Ancient China Simplified
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Translations for embouchure
Catalan
embocadura
Embouchure through the time