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‖ embouchure|ɑ̃buʃyr|
Also 9 embouchier, 8 ambusheer.
[Fr.; f. emboucher to put in or to the mouth; also refl. of a river, to discharge itself by a mouth; f. en- in + bouche mouth.]
1. The mouth of a river or creek. Also transf. the opening out of a valley into a plain.
1792Fortn. Ramble xvi. 114 We reached the embouchure of the fall. 1812Examiner 14 Sept. 580/2 Near to the embouchier of Berezina. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 238 The city Foah..so late as the beginning of the fifteenth century, was on this embouchure. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. ii. i. 71 Huge cones of white clay and sand..guarding the embouchure of the valleys. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 100 It lies..at the embouchure of several rivers.
2. Music. ‘The part of a musical instrument applied to the mouth’ (Grove).
1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. S. xvii. (1849) 169 The embouchure of a flute. 1873W. Lees Acoustics i. iii. 27 The air..is made to play upon the thin edge of the pipe at the embouchure C.
3. Music. ‘The disposition of the lips, tongue and other organs necessary for producing a musical tone’ (Grove).
1760Goldsm. Cit. W. xc, You see..I have got the ambusheer already [on the German flute]. 1879Grove Dict. Mus. I. 536 The second octave is produced by a stronger pressure of wind and an alteration of embouchure. |