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Meanings of piffero 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
        Usage of piffero in English
        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
        Piffero through the time