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chalumeau

/shal-yuh-moh; French sha-ly-moh/US // ˌʃæl yəˈmoʊ; French ʃa lüˈmoʊ //

恰鲁莫,恰鲁木奥,恰鲁摩

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural chal·u·meaux [shal-yuh-mohz, French sha-ly-moh]. /ˌʃæl yəˈmoʊz, French ʃa lüˈmoʊ/.

    • : Music. the low register of the clarinet.
    • : a 17th- or 18th-century woodwind instrument.

Examples

  • Then one day his father brought him to see his aunt—who had married Monsieur Chalumeau, my uncle, you see?

  • Madame Chalumeau's face, glossy and red-and-white like a Norman apple, wore an expression of anxious expectation.

  • Good Madame Chalumeau climbed down from her chair with a generous display of fat, black woollen legs and unpinned her skirt.

  • Madame Chalumeau flopped her omelet again, slid it to a platter and set a carafe of cider on the table.

  • Madame Chalumeau had risen, and had led her guest through the sitting-room into her immaculate kitchen.