(n.) A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.
(n.) An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.
Example Sentences:
Shawm
Definition:
(n.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .