piccolon.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɪkələʊ/, U.S.

/ˈpɪkəˌloʊ/

Inflections: Plural piccolos, piccoli.

Forms: 1800s picolo, 1800s– piccolo.

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

Etymology: Partly < Italian piccolo (adjective) small (12th cent.; ultimately of imitative origin), and partly < Italian piccolo (noun) small flute (undated; compare †flauto piccolo (a1840), waiter's assistant, junior waiter (1889; chiefly regional (northern) in this sense, now rare), uses as noun of piccolo , adjective (see above). With sense A. 2 compare French piccolo (1828 in this sense), German Pikkolo (19th cent.), and also octave flute n. at octave n.² and adj. Compounds. With sense A. 4 compare German Pikkolo apprentice waiter (late 19th cent. in this sense).In sense A. 1 apparently short for piccolo piano n. at sense B. (although the latter is first attested slightly later). In plural form piccoli after the Italian plural form.

A. n.

†1. = piccolo piano n. at sense B. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano

grand pianoforte1784

square pianoforte1787

grand piano1795

cottage pianoforte1816

cottage piano1824

table piano1827

table pianoforte1827

tin kettle1827

grand1830

piccolo1831

Broadwood1832

semi-grand1835

pianino1848

cottage1850

square piano1853

street piano1855

upright1860

pianette1862

digitorium1866

Steinway1875

baby grand1879

square1882

tin pan1882

honky-tonk piano1934

minipiano1934

spinet1936

prepared piano1940

ravalement1959

rinky-tink1961

miniature1974

Mozart piano1980

1831 Times 30 June 2/1 (advt.) A nearly new 6½-octave cabinet;..and a Piccolo... The latter is adapted for cabins and small rooms.

1849 Hamilton's Celebrated Dict. (advt.) A list of prices of their piccolos and cottages..may be had postage free.

1880 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 751/1 The ‘piccolo’ was finished to stand out in the room away from the wall.

2. A small flute, an octave higher in pitch than the ordinary flute; = octave flute n. (a) at octave n.² and adj. Compounds. (Now the usual sense.)

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

octave flute1724

piffero1724

flauto piccolo1792

piccolo1841

1841 Times 6 Jan. 5/2 They may allow themselves to be squeaked into enthusiasm by the shrill-toned piccolo.

1884 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 3rd Ser. III. 45 Thackeray..playing on the piccolo.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 July 3/1 In ‘Otello’ Verdi..has written important parts for piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet, a third bassoon, two cornets, and a tuba.

1923 Sears, Roebuck Catal. 519 Our flutes and piccolos are carefully inspected and the keys adjusted before leaving our store.

1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) vii. 161 To some extent, the alto horns and piccolos dropped out of the march band during this period.

1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 77 Andrew's opus 3, Eek, A Mouse, was a programmatic piece scored for soprano voice and piccolo.

2000 G. Santoro Myself when I am Real (2001) viii. 158 The orchestration and instrumentation, from piccolo to double bass, has a Beethovenesque reach.

3. An organ stop having the tone of the piccolo. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > flute-tone stops > specific

hohl-flute1660

nason1690

Rohrflöte1773

gemshorn1825

unda maris1828

clarabella1840

flageolet1852

octave flute1852

portunal1852

waldflute1852

Spitzflöte1855

suabe flute1855

melodia1868

piccolo1875

fife1876

flute-douce1876

keraulophon1876

orchestral flute1876

Querflöte1905

1875 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms (1898) 360/2 Piccolo, an organ stop of 2 ft. length—the pipes are of wood, the tone bright and piercing.

4. A waiter's assistant in a hotel, restaurant, etc.; a junior page at a hotel.

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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > server of food > in inn or restaurant > waiter's assistant

omnibus1888

bus1902

busboy1904

piccolo1904

commis1930

1904 Times 11 Mar. 7/6 A female postman, waiter, piccolo, chambermaid, two ‘bootses’, [etc.].

1926 R. Hall Adam's Breed i. x. 94 He had six enormous aprons... He had been very generously equipped for his duties as ‘piccolo’.

1960 O. Manning Great Fortune iii. 31 The piccolo arrived, a scrap of a boy, laden with bottles, glasses and plates.

2002 Los Angeles Mag. (Nexis) 1 July 90 As a 13-year-old kitchen piccolo at Rimini's Grand Hotel on the Adriatic coast, he was trained in the style that aspired to haute cuisine.

5. U.S. regional (chiefly south-eastern and New York, esp. in African-American usage). A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > juke-box

nickelodeon1938

piccolo1938

1938 N.Y. Amsterdam News 12 Mar. 17 The Harlem Hamfats grind out the tune on myriad Harlem piccolos.

1946 E. Bishop North & South 50 He's drinking in the warm pink glow To th' accompaniment of the piccolo.

1950 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xiv. 52 [S. Carolina.] Piccolo, an automatic music box, worked by a nickel slot machine. Origin undetermined.

1987 N.Y. Folklore 13 60 Here the people eat, drink, play cards, listen to music if there is a ‘picolo’ or jukebox, and fight.

B. adj.

Designating the smallest or highest-pitched member of a family of musical instruments. See also violino piccolo n., violoncello piccolo n. at violoncello n. Compounds 2. piccolo piano n. (also piccolo pianoforte) now historical a small upright piano. piccolo flute n. = sense A. 2.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [adjective] > violin

piccolo1832

violinistic1921

violinic1963

1832 Times 25 Sept. 4/5 (advt.) The Effects consist of a six-octave Picolo Pianoforte, 12 chairs, [etc.].

1853 H. Morley in Househ. Words 16 July 458/2 There was in this particular parlour a piccolo piano.

1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 121 Piccolo flutes are strangely abused now-a-days.

1952 Monumenta Nipponica 8 403 It proceeds in parallel octaves with the voice, in the pitch of our piccolo flute.

1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments (1966) 485/2 Sopranino clarinet, clarinet pitched between the ordinary C clarinet and the piccolo clarinet in high A♭.

1980 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 13 Sept. a12/6 Mancini..joined the flute section on piccolo flute for the well known solo in Sousa's ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’.

1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments III. 111/1 The term ‘piccolo bass’ refers to a rare small double bass used in jazz; it is fitted with thin strings and tuned an octave higher than the standard instrument.

2001 Times 28 Feb. ii. 20/6 Aerial calls for piccolo trumpet and cowhorn as well as conventional C trumpet.

Compounds

(In sense A. 2.)

piccolo player n.

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1851 Harper's Mag. July 181/2 In an instant all eyes are upon me—from the little piccolo-player in the corner of the orchestra, to the diamonded duchess in the private box.

1938 Foreign Service Feb. 47/3 (caption) Ray Bippus,..drum major and piccolo player of the band.

1997 Frederick (Maryland) Post 9 June b4/2 ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever’ is a favorite of piccolo players.

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

单词	piccolo
释义	piccolon.adj. Brit. /ˈpɪkələʊ/, U.S. /ˈpɪkəˌloʊ/ Inflections: Plural piccolos, piccoli. Forms: 1800s picolo, 1800s– piccolo. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian piccolo. Etymology: Partly < Italian piccolo (adjective) small (12th cent.; ultimately of imitative origin), and partly < Italian piccolo (noun) small flute (undated; compare †flauto piccolo (a1840), waiter's assistant, junior waiter (1889; chiefly regional (northern) in this sense, now rare), uses as noun of piccolo , adjective (see above). With sense A. 2 compare French piccolo (1828 in this sense), German Pikkolo (19th cent.), and also octave flute n. at octave n.² and adj. Compounds. With sense A. 4 compare German Pikkolo apprentice waiter (late 19th cent. in this sense).In sense A. 1 apparently short for piccolo piano n. at sense B. (although the latter is first attested slightly later). In plural form piccoli after the Italian plural form. A. n. †1. = piccolo piano n. at sense B. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano grand pianoforte1784 square pianoforte1787 grand piano1795 cottage pianoforte1816 cottage piano1824 table piano1827 table pianoforte1827 tin kettle1827 grand1830 piccolo1831 Broadwood1832 semi-grand1835 pianino1848 cottage1850 square piano1853 street piano1855 upright1860 pianette1862 digitorium1866 Steinway1875 baby grand1879 square1882 tin pan1882 honky-tonk piano1934 minipiano1934 spinet1936 prepared piano1940 ravalement1959 rinky-tink1961 miniature1974 Mozart piano1980 1831 Times 30 June 2/1 (advt.) A nearly new 6½-octave cabinet;..and a Piccolo... The latter is adapted for cabins and small rooms. 1849 Hamilton's Celebrated Dict. (advt.) A list of prices of their piccolos and cottages..may be had postage free. 1880 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 751/1 The ‘piccolo’ was finished to stand out in the room away from the wall. 2. A small flute, an octave higher in pitch than the ordinary flute; = octave flute n. (a) at octave n.² and adj. Compounds. (Now the usual sense.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute > small flute or piccolo octave flute1724 piffero1724 flauto piccolo1792 piccolo1841 1841 Times 6 Jan. 5/2 They may allow themselves to be squeaked into enthusiasm by the shrill-toned piccolo. 1884 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 3rd Ser. III. 45 Thackeray..playing on the piccolo. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 July 3/1 In ‘Otello’ Verdi..has written important parts for piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet, a third bassoon, two cornets, and a tuba. 1923 Sears, Roebuck Catal. 519 Our flutes and piccolos are carefully inspected and the keys adjusted before leaving our store. 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) vii. 161 To some extent, the alto horns and piccolos dropped out of the march band during this period. 1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 77 Andrew's opus 3, Eek, A Mouse, was a programmatic piece scored for soprano voice and piccolo. 2000 G. Santoro Myself when I am Real (2001) viii. 158 The orchestration and instrumentation, from piccolo to double bass, has a Beethovenesque reach. 3. An organ stop having the tone of the piccolo. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > flute-tone stops > specific hohl-flute1660 nason1690 Rohrflöte1773 gemshorn1825 unda maris1828 clarabella1840 flageolet1852 octave flute1852 portunal1852 waldflute1852 Spitzflöte1855 suabe flute1855 melodia1868 piccolo1875 fife1876 flute-douce1876 keraulophon1876 orchestral flute1876 Querflöte1905 1875 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms (1898) 360/2 Piccolo, an organ stop of 2 ft. length—the pipes are of wood, the tone bright and piercing. 4. A waiter's assistant in a hotel, restaurant, etc.; a junior page at a hotel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > server of food > in inn or restaurant > waiter's assistant omnibus1888 bus1902 busboy1904 piccolo1904 commis1930 1904 Times 11 Mar. 7/6 A female postman, waiter, piccolo, chambermaid, two ‘bootses’, [etc.]. 1926 R. Hall Adam's Breed i. x. 94 He had six enormous aprons... He had been very generously equipped for his duties as ‘piccolo’. 1960 O. Manning Great Fortune iii. 31 The piccolo arrived, a scrap of a boy, laden with bottles, glasses and plates. 2002 Los Angeles Mag. (Nexis) 1 July 90 As a 13-year-old kitchen piccolo at Rimini's Grand Hotel on the Adriatic coast, he was trained in the style that aspired to haute cuisine. 5. U.S. regional (chiefly south-eastern and New York, esp. in African-American usage). A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > juke-box nickelodeon1938 piccolo1938 1938 N.Y. Amsterdam News 12 Mar. 17 The Harlem Hamfats grind out the tune on myriad Harlem piccolos. 1946 E. Bishop North & South 50 He's drinking in the warm pink glow To th' accompaniment of the piccolo. 1950 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xiv. 52 [S. Carolina.] Piccolo, an automatic music box, worked by a nickel slot machine. Origin undetermined. 1987 N.Y. Folklore 13 60 Here the people eat, drink, play cards, listen to music if there is a ‘picolo’ or jukebox, and fight. B. adj. Designating the smallest or highest-pitched member of a family of musical instruments. See also violino piccolo n., violoncello piccolo n. at violoncello n. Compounds 2. piccolo piano n. (also piccolo pianoforte) now historical a small upright piano. piccolo flute n. = sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [adjective] > violin piccolo1832 violinistic1921 violinic1963 1832 Times 25 Sept. 4/5 (advt.) The Effects consist of a six-octave Picolo Pianoforte, 12 chairs, [etc.]. 1853 H. Morley in Househ. Words 16 July 458/2 There was in this particular parlour a piccolo piano. 1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 121 Piccolo flutes are strangely abused now-a-days. 1952 Monumenta Nipponica 8 403 It proceeds in parallel octaves with the voice, in the pitch of our piccolo flute. 1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments (1966) 485/2 Sopranino clarinet, clarinet pitched between the ordinary C clarinet and the piccolo clarinet in high A♭. 1980 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 13 Sept. a12/6 Mancini..joined the flute section on piccolo flute for the well known solo in Sousa's ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’. 1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments III. 111/1 The term ‘piccolo bass’ refers to a rare small double bass used in jazz; it is fitted with thin strings and tuned an octave higher than the standard instrument. 2001 Times 28 Feb. ii. 20/6 Aerial calls for piccolo trumpet and cowhorn as well as conventional C trumpet. Compounds (In sense A. 2.) piccolo player n. ΚΠ 1851 Harper's Mag. July 181/2 In an instant all eyes are upon me—from the little piccolo-player in the corner of the orchestra, to the diamonded duchess in the private box. 1938 Foreign Service Feb. 47/3 (caption) Ray Bippus,..drum major and piccolo player of the band. 1997 Frederick (Maryland) Post 9 June b4/2 ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever’ is a favorite of piccolo players. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1831
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