"sackbut" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sackbuts [plural]
Etymology: From French sacqueboute, from Middle French sacquer (“to pull”) + bouter (“to push”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|sacqueboute|}} French sacqueboute, {{uder|en|frm|sacquer||to pull}} Middle French sacquer (“to pull”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sackbut (plural sackbuts)
  1. (music) A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet. Categories (topical): Music Synonyms: sacbut, sackbutt, sagbut, shagbolt, shakbusshe Derived forms: electronic sackbut, sackbuttist Related terms: Sackbut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) Translations (brass instrument): sacabutx [masculine] (Catalan), baroktrombone [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), renesanctrombono (Esperanto), baroktrombono (Esperanto), sakbuto (Esperanto), sacqueboute [feminine] (French), sacquebute [feminine] (French), saquebute [feminine] (French), Posaune (German), Barockposaune [feminine] (German), Renaissanceposaune [feminine] (German), Sackbut [neuter] (German), sackbut [masculine] (Italian), sackbut (Norwegian Bokmål), barokktrombone (Norwegian Bokmål), sackbut (Norwegian Nynorsk), barokktrombone (Norwegian Nynorsk), sacabota [feminine] (Occitan), sacabuxa [masculine] (Portuguese), sacabuche [masculine] (Spanish), barocktrombon (Swedish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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