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Embouchure

noun
1.
The aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly.  Synonym: mouthpiece.






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"Embouchure" Quotes from Famous Books



... ten yards wide, and very shallow; not more than two feet deep. We ascended about half a mile, the current being very strong, from six to eight miles an hour, and quite far enough to observe the nature of the stream at its embouchure. We could see that it widened and spread out in a myriad of channels, rushing by isolated clumps of sedge and matete grass; and that it had the appearance of a swamp. We had ascended the central, or main channel. The western channel was about eight yards broad. We observed, ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

... Nautilus was furnished with long diagonal broadsides which carried it to all elevations. But on the 11th of April it rose suddenly, and land appeared at the mouth of the Amazon River, a vast estuary, the embouchure of which is so considerable that it freshens the sea-water for the ...
— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne



Words linked to "Embouchure" :   aperture, wind, mouthpiece, wind instrument



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