pifferon.

Brit.

/ˈpɪfərəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈpɪfəroʊ/

Forms: 1700s piffaro, 1700s– piffero.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian piffero.

Etymology: < Italian piffero (late 14th cent. in sense ‘a fife or pipe’, 1461 in sense ‘piper’) < Middle High German pfīfer piper (see fife n.). Compare French piffero (1874; 1765 as piffaro ), Catalan pífaro (1517; earlier as píferes , plural (1472)), Spanish pífaro (1517; now pífano (c1600)), Portuguese pífaro (1563; 1652 as pífano ). Compare piffer n.¹

Any of various Italian woodwind instruments, esp. one with a double reed.Now usually applied to a small oboe played in the Abruzzi region, esp. in the Christmas season. The word is also sometimes applied to flutes and bagpipes.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute > small flute or piccolo

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1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Piffaro, is an Instrument somewhat like a Hautboy.

1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Piffero, is a small Flute or Flagelet.

1859 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 459/1 The other, who played the piffero, was a man of middle age.

1891 G. Du Maurier Peter Ibbetson iii, in Harper's Mag. Aug. 394/2 Higher and higher..rose the quick, piercing notes of the piffero.

1924 W. B. McDaniels Rom. Private Life & Its Survivals 18 In various parts of Italy it [sc. bagpipes] has long been played with the piffero, or pastoral pipe, before the street-shrines of the Madonna in the Christmas season.

1992 City Limits 2 July 47/1 As well as more well-known instruments, they play the piffero (a small reed instrument from the mountains).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	piffero
释义	pifferon. Brit. /ˈpɪfərəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpɪfəroʊ/ Forms: 1700s piffaro, 1700s– piffero. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian piffero. Etymology: < Italian piffero (late 14th cent. in sense ‘a fife or pipe’, 1461 in sense ‘piper’) < Middle High German pfīfer piper (see fife n.). Compare French piffero (1874; 1765 as piffaro ), Catalan pífaro (1517; earlier as píferes , plural (1472)), Spanish pífaro (1517; now pífano (c1600)), Portuguese pífaro (1563; 1652 as pífano ). Compare piffer n.¹ Any of various Italian woodwind instruments, esp. one with a double reed.Now usually applied to a small oboe played in the Abruzzi region, esp. in the Christmas season. The word is also sometimes applied to flutes and bagpipes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe bagc1275 stivec1290 cornemusec1384 musettea1393 bagpipec1405 pair1422 pipec1450 muse1484 drone1502 lilt-pipea1525 great pipe1592 miskin1593 Highland pipe1599 small-pipes1656 piffero1724 Highland bagpipe1728 zampogna1740 union pipes1788 Lowland pipes1794 pibroch1807 piob mhor1838 gaita1846 sack pipe1889 set1893 biniou1902 uillean pipes1906 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute > small flute or piccolo octave flute1724 piffero1724 flauto piccolo1792 piccolo1841 1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Piffaro, is an Instrument somewhat like a Hautboy. 1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Piffero, is a small Flute or Flagelet. 1859 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 459/1 The other, who played the piffero, was a man of middle age. 1891 G. Du Maurier Peter Ibbetson iii, in Harper's Mag. Aug. 394/2 Higher and higher..rose the quick, piercing notes of the piffero. 1924 W. B. McDaniels Rom. Private Life & Its Survivals 18 In various parts of Italy it [sc. bagpipes] has long been played with the piffero, or pastoral pipe, before the street-shrines of the Madonna in the Christmas season. 1992 City Limits 2 July 47/1 As well as more well-known instruments, they play the piffero (a small reed instrument from the mountains). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1724
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