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Meanings of piffaro in English

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

Synonyms
Examples for "fife"
Examples for "fife"
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
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