sackbut
nounEtymology From French sacqueboute, from Middle French sacquer (“to pull”) + bouter (“to push”).
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, 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.
- Every instrument took part in the stately Pavane: the lutes and the dulcimers, and the theorbos, and the sackbuts, and the hautboys; the flutes sweetly warbling as birds in the upper air, and the silver trumpets, and the horns that breathed deep melodies trembling with mystery and tenderness that shakes the heart; and the drum that beateth to battle, and the wild throb of the harp, and the cymbals clashing as the clash of armies.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 35:
- Derived terms
- electronic sackbut, sackbuttist
- Related terms
- Sackbut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)