fluviol

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Catalan fluviol.

Noun

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fluviol (plural fluviols)

  1. (music) A small piccolo-like wooden flute used to accompany the sardana.
    • 1929 August 11, Olin Downes, “As to the Sardanas”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      They are danced to the music of a curious orchestra of eleven instruments. The uppermost of these instruments is the fluviol, which is the melodic agent in the primitive combination of two instruments performed upon by the same player.
    • 2008, Robert Francis Waters, Déodat de Séverac: Musical Identity in Fin de Siècle France, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 177:
      Sardanas begin with an improvised fluviol solo introduction of ten measures.

Catalan

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Noun

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fluviol m (plural fluviols)

  1. Alternative form of flabiol

Further reading

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  • “fluviol” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.