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    piccolo

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Music
    pic·co·lo /ˈpɪkələʊ $ -loʊ/ noun (plural piccolos) [countable]  APMa musical instrument that looks like a small flute 短笛 →5 see picture at 见图 woodwind
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    piccolo• I can sense a piccolo fauxpas when I make one.• The flutes and piccolo act in the same way at still higher altitudes.• Sudden shocks - the screaming piccolo at the height of the storm - are splendid.• Marsalis scales the stratospheric extreme of the piccolo trumpet without a single bobble.• The change from flute to piccolo or viceversa occupies only a few seconds.    Origin piccolo (1800-1900) Italian piccolo flauto “small flute”
    pic·co·lo nounChineseSyllable
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    piccolo
    pic‧co‧lo /ˈpɪkələʊ $ -loʊ/ noun (plural piccolos) [countable]
     Date: 1800-1900
     Language: Italian
     Origin: piccolo flauto 'small flute'
    a musical instrument that looks like a small flute


    pic·coloBrE /ˈpɪkələʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpɪkəloʊ/ 🔊 noun (
    plural
    pic·colos    )
    a musical instrument of the woodwind group, like a small flute that plays high notes 短笛