📚 Flageolet, noun. ❓ Definition: (also French flageolet) a very small wind instrument resembling a recorder but with four finger holes on top and two thumb holes below. ❗️ Examples: 1. Diagrams relating fingering to notes have occasionally been used for such wind instruments as the recorder, flageolet, oboe, and clarinet in instrumental tutors since the 16th century. 2. After making a demo in his London flat on a stereo tape-deck, he hawked his melding of many instruments (glockenspiel, farfisa organ, flageolet etc) around record companies. 3. Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion. 4. His power over his instrument is surprising; the tones he draws from it might be thought those of the sweetest flageolet and hautboy, and sometimes of the human voice. 5. Here all is atwitter with prominent flageolet and flutes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic